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...like to see dead? Just like bin Laden, al-Awlaki comes from an influential family: one of his relatives is Prime Minister of Yemen, and his father Nasser al-Awlaki was Agriculture Minister and head of the country's biggest university. Like bin Laden, al-Awlaki is soft-spoken, mild-mannered and austere...
...results of memory-reconsolidation experiments are impressive. The participants in the Nature study were first trained to fear a certain arbitrary stimulus - they were shown colored cards while receiving mild electric shocks - then reconditioned during the reconsolidation period. The fear went away. It was still gone when the participants were retested a year later...
Increasing the previous federal estimate of 1 in 150, the new data suggest that 1% of children now exhibit some symptoms of an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a collection of neurological conditions whose symptoms may range from mild social impairment to more serious communication, language and cognitive deficits. The estimate also represents a stunning 57% increase in prevalence since 2002, when health officials first began a nationwide effort to quantify the risk of autism in childhood. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...several students expressed only mild concern regarding the H1N1 pandemic, stating that it would not deter them from travelling...
Since early November, cases of H1N1 have continued to decline nationwide, and scientists keeping track of the numbers say that as pandemics go, 2009 H1N1 may turn out to be a mild one - at least for the time being...