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...substance of what the convention had so far decided, it was hardly accidental that all five were strong-government advocates, and that one of them was Madison. The actual writer was Gouverneur Morris, a one-legged but rather rakish Philadelphian who boasted what he liked to consider a muscular prose style. And prose styles do have an effect. The convention had given the committee a draft that began: "We the undersigned delegates of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay" and so on. Morris rewrote that so it began: "We, the People of the United States...
CONGRATULATIONS! read the placard held high by a muscular white man in a checked shirt. BERNIE GOETZ WINS ONE FOR THE GOOD GUYS...
...breeding has produced sickly misfits, they fear that genetic engineering will inflict greater suffering and disability. "Researchers are creating new disease complexes that I certainly couldn't treat," says Veterinarian Fox. He objects to another area of genetic engineering: the development of animals that suffer from human diseases like muscular dystrophy. Yet such creatures would be invaluable in testing new drugs for humans...
Cystic fibrosis, cleft palate, muscular dystrophy, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's chorea. The list of disorders that have been traced to a specific gene or gene region seems to grow on a weekly basis. The latest in this gene- of-the-week series: the discovery of a region on the X chromosome that is linked to manic depression, a mental disorder that affects as many as 2 million Americans. The finding, published in Nature by an American and Israeli research team, was based on studies of five families in Jerusalem. It marks the second time in three weeks that...
...clear what he meant by hemiparicia. A similar-sounding condition, hemiparesis, is defined in Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary as "muscular weakness affecting one side of the body...