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...step toward treating muscular dystrophy may lie in the discovery of a new form of a nervous system protein which in mutated forms causes the disease...
...biochemical equivalent of a debilitating stutter: a defective gene that includes too many copies of one crucial subsection of the DNA molecule. The more extra copies, the more severe the symptoms and the sooner they occur. In the past two years, three other conditions, including a form of muscular dystrophy, have been traced to such hereditary hiccups. With the Huntington's gene in hand, researchers can now develop more accurate diagnostic tests. They may also prove better able to predict at what age a person will succumb to the disease...
...country, salaries start at $42,000 and go as high as $97,000. A staff of 570 lawyers juggles roughly 80,000 cases a year. The work is often thankless, but every so often a case upholds the promise of Gideon. Earlier this month Frank White, 36, a tall, muscular man covered with tattoos, landed in L.A. County court, accused of murdering a tiny Korean woman with his bare fists. White, diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, refused to take his medication and grew angry when the deputies would not remove his handcuffs. White glared as he stalked into the courtroom...
Standing over six feet tall, handsome, muscular, African-American, homosexual and HIV positive, dancer-choreographer Bill T. Jones came to town this past week to teach us a few things. Despite a disarming smile and pleasantly patrician manner, there can be no questioning the intensity and sheer weight of Jones' words and movement...
...gorilla Koko, first taught 20 years ago to use American Sign Language by psychologist Penny Patterson. On one much discussed occasion, the powerful gorilla had inadvertently knocked a sink off its moorings in her living quarters. Koko signed the words "Kate there bad," pointing to the sink. Was the muscular animal trying, rather implausibly, to shift the blame to one of Patterson's slightly built female assistants? Or was she merely making signs vaguely associated with the event? Sixteen years later, there is still no definitive answer...