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...supposed to be a weekend of rest, it sends a ripple of consternation across the land. That is what happened when President Nixon, relaxing at his Camp David, Md., retreat, snatched up his briefcase, dashed to his helicopter and zipped back to the White House. To make matters murkier, White House spokesmen offered the lamest excuses. Speculation mounted. Quite simply, the President was escaping from the pollen hanging heavy over Camp David. Indeed, one wonders at the effort to cover up the President's allergy." --June 26, 1972, the issue published the week before the Watergate break...
...blood pressure depresses sexual function is unclear; why men and women react differently to medication is murkier still. The only thing certain from the study is that with hypertension a leading cause of heart attack and stroke, the first priority is still to get the pressure down...
Beneath the Two-Headed Girl's intricate social sphere lies her even murkier "inner life." This is the purview of Purple Moon's second line of games, Secret Paths. The debut title, Secret Paths in the Forest, is a gorgeously illustrated adventure game whose players take soul-baring journeys that are essentially preteen female versions of Robert Bly. The game begins with girls gathering in a tree house to talk Issues: one girl doesn't think she's pretty enough, another isn't getting along with her siblings, and so on. Purple Moon misses no chance to add layers...
Things get murkier when researchers look at the BRCA mutations. Hundreds of base pairs may be strung along genes like Christmas-tree lights, but not every blown bulb affects the strand the same way. More than 200 mutations have been identified on the two BRCA genes, and one new study found that while BRCA2 mutations will show up on a test, they may be less likely to lead to disease than mutations on BRCA1 in young women...
...good news about Fujitsu's new FlatScreen television is obvious: it's just over four inches thick, and it hangs on any wall as simply as a Picasso. A designer's dream, surely. But the less good news may be more important: the picture is murkier than images on most old-style television sets, and the Ivana-thin display costs, ahem, $25,000 (for the 42-in. incarnation, on sale at Hammacher Schlemmer). Nonetheless, TV analyst Allen Griffin says the set is a good omen. The breakthrough "plasma" technology that made these high-end boxes possible should push higher-quality...