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At the senate confirmation hearing of attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales last week, we learned that Judge Gonzales grew up impoverished with seven siblings in a shotgun shack without heat or running water in Texas. We learned that Gonzales sold soft drinks at Rice University football games and that he...
At the Paris headquarters of cementmaker Lafarge Group on Dec. 26, the devastation ran deep. The firm had a plant in Lho Nga, Indonesia, 25 km west of Banda Aceh, perilously close to the earthquake's epicenter off Sumatra. A killer wave destroyed the plant's 35 buildings as well...
Her best known experiment examined the effects of mindfulness on “learned helplessness” to illustrate that nursing home patients lived longer and healthier lives when they were given a plant to care for.
The Stealth Killer Your report on high blood pressure is a timely and critical message for every person [Dec. 13]. In your article, you remarked on the role that nitric oxide plays in relaxing blood vessels. When I shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1998 for my research on...
Nearly everything about the stories of Jesus' birth is mythical. Over the years, tradition has added layers to the tales: farm animals, three kings, the celebration of Christmas during the winter solstice. Inquisitive people--those who are not satisfied with the attitude of others who think they learned all they...