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...thick, befuddling fog settled over the presidential campaign in Boston - a blanket of contradictory facts and assertions that hasn't lifted yet. But two basic images loom through the haze. The first is Bush's portrait of Gore as a retrograde liberal who wants to patch up the edifice of the Great Society. The second is Gore's portrait of Bush as a faithful servant of the rich and powerful who wants to wire-transfer the surplus into the bank accounts of the upper class, spending "more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%" than he does...
Epic battles loom in a war that will stretch from courtrooms to boardrooms and back. On a practical level, the conflict is being fought, as Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig has observed, between two sets of "codes." There's the legal code, or set of laws, that could end up endorsing file sharing or driving it into the criminal underworld, and there's the software writer's code, or computer instructions, that can create programs for sharing copyrighted information or encrypt files so they can never be shared...
...recent years, a bigger problem has begun to loom. Improper use of tuberculosis medications has led to the creation of the MDR-TB strains, which are resistant to cocktails of even four or five drugs. Currently 11 percent of all tuberculosis cases are resistant to at least one drug...
...debates loom large and the Democrats converge on Los Angeles to pick up their own momentum, Bush and Cheney are in for a debilitating and, if the last few days of inter-party barbs are any indication, bruising campaign season. They now face the classic political challenge: Capture the euphoria of the convention floor, take it on the road, and show a disgruntled and disaffected American public that they are worthy of those blizzards of balloons and confetti...
...then that the question of what caused Alzheimer's disease--the plaques or the tangles--began to loom large. In the mid-1980s, researchers isolated beta amyloid--a generic name for a class of sticky proteins--from the brains of Alzheimer's patients. A short time later, four research teams zeroed in on the gene that encodes the recipe for making the protein. To their great surprise, they discovered that beta amyloid was a fragment of a much larger protein, which came to be known as the amyloid-precursor protein, or APP for short...