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...there really is life elsewhere in the universe, what are the odds of finding it in our lifetime--or even our children's? Hunting for extraterrestrials, smart or otherwise, requires a lot of faith. You have to believe that conditions for life (liquid water, mild temperatures, protection from lethal radiation) are not unique to Earth; that under the right circumstances, life can arise fairly easily; and that if it does reach a level advanced enough to broadcast its presence, it won't destroy itself in a nuclear war or an environmental meltdown before firing off Earth-bound communiques...
MOTHER LOAD When Mom's blue, the kids feel it. And psychologists who studied 85 families have discovered another fascinating consequence of a mother's mild-to-severe depression: daughters may go into puberty early. That also seems to happen when an unrelated male, like a stepfather, joins the family. No one knows why, but it's thought that stress hormones and other chemicals play a role...
...prep is a pain," Couric admits. The colonoscopy itself is conducted under a mild sedative. "I was chatting the whole time," Couric recalls, "bossing my camera crew around." There is a risk, albeit a small one, that the device can slip and punch a hole in the intestinal wall. Yet a colonoscopy offers a distinct advantage in that the doctor can remove any small precancerous polyps as soon as they are found, making it the only screening test that can prevent cancer, not just detect...
...heroes has always been Dr. Frankenstein," says an interviewee in Errol Morris' First Person (Bravo, Wednesdays, 10:30 p.m. E.T.)--Saul Kent, a mild-mannered cryonics buff who lovingly had his dead mother's severed head frozen. "I just think he's been misunderstood." In a way, Kent has captured the theme of his interlocutor's career. In Morris' acclaimed film documentaries, he has sought to understand the unfathomable--from a Holocaust denier who builds electric chairs to the work of physicist Stephen Hawking--a task he continues in this remarkable series of profiles in peculiarity...
...Alzheimer's, after all. Doctors had every reason to believe it might be; studies show it may prevent the brain-deteriorating disease, and several preliminary reports suggested it could actually be used to treat it. But now the largest and longest study on the subject--100 women with mild to moderate Alzheimer's who took estrogen for a year--finds that the drug did nothing to improve patients' memory, attention span or language skills...