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...guest-worker provision, he's determined to get stronger border enforcement passed, which will please conservative voters who will pick the G.O.P. nominee in 2008. David Winston, a veteran G.O.P. pollster, says that Frist--who plans to retire from the Senate after this year--"is clearly laying out this marker." If he can succeed in passing an immigration bill--especially his own--he may regain some of the luster he lost last year. If he can't, he may return home to Tennessee as the ineffectual G.O.P. leader who lost his touch--and his presidential prospects...
...Most current parents of young children don ' t remember that the PG-13 marker was invented in response to an outcry from parents after 1984' s " Gremlins " and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom " received PG rather than R ratings. The latter film features a scene in which the villain removes a victim' s beating heart, and "Gremlins " churned its pint size villains in blenders. So Johnny' s mom and I talked about the extraordinary imagination of children and the difficulty of those same imaginations to turn off disturbing images when they get tired. I suggested that Johnny...
Sadowsky and his fellow researchers have found a way to tease out stretches of marker DNA that indicate whether the bacteria came from human or nonhuman sources. With cities and states across the country spending billions on new water-quality systems, the impact of Sadowsky's work could be huge...
Searles stated in that same complaint that he “had a purple marker and [Brown] had a red marker. We were drunk and we wrote anti-Semitic graffiti on the walls in our friend’s dorm suite...
...onset depression. That goal would become especially problematic should the research lead to wider use of antidepressants, shown to cause moderate to profound agitation in 7% of users. And will people need a dna test to find out their genetic vulnerability to depression? There is probably some personality marker for the high-risk genotype, says Parker. Despite a trawl of the data, however, "we haven't found it yet. We've looked at all varieties of anxiety and numerous personality styles," but at this stage without any luck...