Word: mimics
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...doing forward rolls, somersaults, backflips and swallow dives despite his debilitating condition. The researchers, Professor Alan R. Crossman and Dr. Jonathan M. Brotchie of the University of Manchester, are trying to find a component of the banned substance that might be developed into a safe drug to mimic ecstasy's good effects while suppressing the bad, which include memory loss, brain cell death and depression. And they think such a safe drug could be available for testing within a year...
SPARE THE ROD Preschool kids who receive harsh physical punishments from parents tend to display excessive aggression as schoolchildren, says a study at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Researchers find that these youngsters end up feeling humiliated, frustrated by their unmet needs and unworthy of care. Later they mimic their parents' model of violence to cope with social situations...
...five years--there are plenty of hurdles to creating useful research monkeys. Scientists still must learn to substitute a malfunctioning gene for the animal's healthy version, then hope the gene expresses its protein at the right time, in the right place and in the right amount to mimic human disease. For diseases involving the misbehavior of several genes, the difficulties will only be compounded. "These techniques are really in their infancy compared to what we can do with the mouse," says Schatten...
...especially if Survivor demonstrates the genre's viability. That may also depend on the continued success of a wave of just-debuted knock-off reality shows that began last week (see boxes)--not unlike the game shows that, exactly this time last year, assumed it would be easy to mimic Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Say, what time is Winning Lines on anyway...
...forced send its own army in to deal with the problem. Although inside Serbia, the ethnic-Albanian villages fall within the demilitarized zone established at the end of the Kosovo conflict, which allows Belgrade to maintain only police units there. The nationalist attacks on Serbian policemen appear to mimic the earlier strategy of the KLA, which used such attacks to goad Belgrade into a brutal response that eventually drew in NATO...