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...fascinated by the mysterious goings-on at the Chez Bippy, the bar and social club downstairs from his apartment. The reigning neighborhood mobster, Sonny, runs the place and coordinates all of his illegal dealings there. Calogero and his friends often stand on the stoop next door and mimic Sonny's every move...
Hart's meeting with Epps yesterday was to discuss official recognition for the club, but Epps said there are concerns about the Enterprise Society duplicating the activities of the Business Club. New organizations are not allowed to mimic existing ones, and "we don't know if it passes that test yet," Epps said...
Humans didn't even invent effective action-at-a-distance weapons until a mere 40,000 or so years ago. Only with these new tools, like the bow and arrow and the spear thrower, could our ancestors begin to mimic the speed and sharpness of a big cat's claws. Even so, predator animals remained a major threat. As late as the 7th century B.C., a stela erected by the Assyrian King Assurbanipal recounts the ferocity of the lions and tigers after torrential rains had flushed them out of their lairs; the great King, of course, stamped out the beasts...
...finding of the altered gene, which codes for an enzyme necessary for mopping up dangerous free radicals roaming in the central nervous system, suggests that scientists may find a cure for the disease if they can mimic the effects of the enzyme in sufferers of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Familial ALS affects 5 to 10 percent of Gehrig's Disease sufferers...
...charge that without safeguards and consultations and thorough psychiatric evaluations, patients may seek out suicide not because of their disease, but because of their despair. Recognizing depression in dying patients is hard, since the culture ties the two together. Its symptoms of fatigue, loss of appetite, aches and pains mimic those of advanced cancer. "What Kevorkian's doing is killing people because they're depressed," says James Bopp Jr., an Indiana attorney who is president of the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled. "But depression is curable. He takes absolutely no account of this...