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...authored a law-journal paper with his professor, Stephen Teret, in which he used epidemiological evidence to explore handgun injuries: how they occurred and who was involved. The study raised the intriguing possibility of assessing gun manufacturers for damages. "We have learned since the 1960s, with both tobacco and motor vehicles, that explicitly holding the manufacturers accountable for what their products do has real benefit," says Wintemute...
...UCLA Medical Center. (This past summer Black became director of a new neurosurgery institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, also in Los Angeles.) The neurosurgeon in Reno, Nev., who performed the original biopsy would not touch the tumor, which was sitting right in the middle of her motor area. He could have taken it out but feared that Schuler would be left paralyzed. "Most of the tumors I see are like this," Black says in his soft Southern voice...
...that serotonin deficits can give rise to very different illnesses, depending on what part of the brain is affected. Obsessive-compulsive disorder, for example, probably arises in the striatum, a part of the brain that controls voluntary movements. Princeton's Jacobs believes that, based on experiments with cats, repetitive motor activity--walking, chewing, breathing--stimulates the release of serotonin, which improves mood. That might explain why people are soothed by gum chewing and why obsessive-compulsives perform such ritualistic acts as hand washing over and over; they may simply be self-medicating to overcome a serotonin deficit...
...working to try and make things safer...not to punish cyclists," Sugrue said, citing a fatal August 5 accident involving a bicyclist and a motor vehicle near Porter Square...
...reduce the divorce rate, we need to curb the marriage rate [SOCIETY, Aug. 18]. Instead of making divorce harder to get, we should make marriage much more difficult. It should be as tightly controlled and regulated by government as owning and operating a motor vehicle. It should involve rigorous training and licensing, and even more severe restrictions if a couple intends to procreate. Divorce and child-support insurance should be required. Some may think government ought to stay out of our private lives. But the social cost of divorce is comparable to, or perhaps much greater than, reckless driving. MANUEL...