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...smoke began to clear inside, the commandos organized a parade of hostages on their hands and knees--like a trail of ants, as one of them put it. They crept to the bedroom balcony and down an outside stairway to safety. "I kept my nose to the ground," says Gumucio, "but I knew at that moment that stopping us was the last thing the rebels could...
...mind, showing where melancholy is mapped on the gray matter of the brain. Writing in last week's Nature, Drevets and his co-workers reported that they had zeroed in on a tiny, thimble-size nodule of the brain located about 2 1/2 inches behind the bridge of the nose. Other scientists had already shown that this section of the brain, called the subgenual prefrontal cortex, plays an important role in the control of emotions. But Drevets, who has since moved to the University of Pittsburgh, discovered that it could also be the trigger point for both bouts of paralyzing...
ALEXIS HERMAN G.O.P. continues strike against Herman nommination to thumb nose at Big Labor and Big Bill...
Next week the bureau will be blasted again by the inspector general for dragging its feet in pursuing CIA traitor Aldrich Ames, who worked for the Russians in Washington (and under the FBI's and CIA's nose) for nine years before he was finally captured. Such failures tend to crowd out the agency's successes--the imprisonment of Mob boss John Gotti, the conviction of the World Trade Center bombers, the capture of the alleged Unabomber, the solution of the Montana Freemen standoff--and leave morale at an all-time...
Charles was sent to psychiatric hospitals several times in the '80s, first in 1984 after breaking the nose of an elderly Grantham woman he considered a "government agent." But after each hospitalization he refused help and drifted away, spiraling downward. Retracing his father's footsteps, Lachenmeyer discovered that doctors and caseworkers had tried hard to help. "I was startled at how deeply involved they were with my father," he says. The elderly woman Charles had attacked turned out to be a retired psychiatric nurse who agreed to drive more than an hour to meet Lachenmeyer's film crew...