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Employing cutting-edge imaging techniques, the study investigated the altered brain structure for those who suffer of dyslexia, a learning disability that hinders reading comprehension.The researchers focused on a genetic mutation of developmental dyslexia and found the organization of nervous tissue scrambled, with support cells underdeveloped and often unable to fully assist nerve cells...
...When she saw Letterman picketing, Shore was crushed. "I watched him from the bay window here," she would recall years later, frail and shaking from a nervous disorder and sitting in the empty showroom at the Comedy Store. "I was taken aback. I was crying. Three and a half years working with him, every night. I called him that night at his apartment. I was totally choked up. And he said, 'Those comedians are my friends. And they'll be my friends for the rest of my life.' I said, 'I'm sorry to hear that, David.'" Says Argus Hamilton...
...Missouri's demographics and its election rules make it particularly tough to handicap a close race here. Because the state mirrors America, every conceivable issue might gain traction - Missouri has nervous factory workers and ethanol-happy farmers; it has failing school districts and wealthy boomers irritated by the estate tax; it has huge corporations alongside angry populists. No one agenda has captured the race...
...That same day Donovan, star of the F/X show Damages, told a crowd of 300 canvassers across town in Venice Beach about how nervous he was making his first phone calls for Obama. "I mean I've done Broadway with Judi Dench, but this was more nerve-wracking, I was calling in to people's homes," said Donovan, who spent much of last week with Obama in South Carolina and now heads to Minneapolis...
...that he “is equally welcome in the Philosophy and African American studies department,” and that his breadth as a scholar had made him attractive to many other schools. “He had offers from other universities and for a while we were nervous that he wouldn’t stay,” she said. Before his time at Harvard, Shelby was an assistant professor of philosophy at Ohio State University. He graduated magna cum laude from Florida A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, and received...