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Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine are concentrating on a protein known as COX2, which they have shown rises steeply in the brains of patients in the very early stages of the disease. Cells produce COX2 in response to injury, observes Mount Sinai molecular psychiatrist Giulio Pasinetti, who believes it may be COX2--and not beta amyloid--that induces the inflammatory response characteristic of the disease. Anti-inflammatories, in other words, could shortly emerge not only as components of the therapeutic arsenal but also as agents of prevention...
Suhayda, a water-resources expert at Louisiana State University, is the kind of guy who could have given Noah a computer model of all 40 days and 40 nights of rain, including the Ark's soft landing on Mount Ararat. So it is real cause for concern that he has joined the chorus of scientists and environmentalists who are saying that the watery threat to New Orleans is extreme--that in the worst-case scenario, in fact, there might not be a city of New Orleans left standing by the end of the century...
...LOCATION Mount Airy, N.C. WHAT'S ON DISPLAY Suit he wore on Matlock, Griffith's childhood slingshot IN THE GIFT SHOP Andy and Opie mouse pads, ties, trivia games, mugs and magnets...
...history is a pastiche of fact, rumor and not a little romance. He was born, it is believed, in Siberia, while his father was being trained as a technocrat under Stalin. But his official biography transposes his birth to the slopes of Mount Paektu on the North Korean-Chinese border--for many, the mythical birthplace of the ancestor of the Korean people. Kim's mother died when he was a schoolboy. When the Korean War broke out during his father's rule, he was spirited off to the safety of Manchuria. In the 1960s Kim is believed to have trained...
...heal myself. It was a survival instinct." "I felt suffocated and trapped in the life I was in," says The Real World's Julie. "I certainly did a lot of growing up." Others, like Bowler, compare the experience to adventure travel. "Other people want to climb Mount Everest, but I've always wanted to go back and forward in time," she says...