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...doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology and postdoctoral work at Stanford University, Olivera began doing research on the deadly cone snails that live in the Southeast Asian island. His research, which now includes many more types of cone snails, has led to a better understanding of the nervous system and the development of new commercial drugs, such as potent painkillers that are administered to patients who do not respond to morphine. Director of the Foundation Dr. S. Allen Counter, associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, said Olivera’s work has the potential...
...Evangelicals have generally been very nervous if not openly opposed to any kind of genetic manipulation, " Mouw told TIME, "certainly against producing designer babies, where you have a choice of blue-eyed or green-eyed babies. Why in the world would we now want to advocate designer orientations...
...France feel the same look from those on top," he says. "They need to know that the people giving them those glances aren't the real voice of France." With Bayrou's campaign ascendant thanks to such populist talk, his rivals' glances are no longer snide, they're nervous. Profile
...chimp," says SNL's Amy Poehler, who is Ferrell's archnemesis in Blades of Glory. "I studied him because a) he's a supergreat human being and b) he reminds you how fun it can be to make movies or be on live TV. He never seems nervous. Bill Murray always seemed that...
Groopman describes this kind of "attribution error" in the case of a nervous young woman who kept losing weight even when prescribed a high-calorie diet. Her doctors, convinced that she was lying about her food intake, suspected anorexia or bulimia, but her problem, diagnosed after years of ill health, turned out to be celiac disease--an allergy to wheat. Had the patient been male or older or less anxious, the doctors might have got it right in the first place...