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...body's inner clock -- at least in mice. Resarchers, according to the journal Cell, believe that the discovery of the so-called "clock gene" in laboratory mice, with its 100,000 bits of information on sleep patterns, mood swings and hormone levels, is an important step towards isolating a parallel gene in humans. This could allow scientists to zero in on the causes of diseases such as insomnia and depression that are related to disturbances in circadian rhythms. It may also help explain why medical conditions such as asthma and heart disease worsen at certain hours. To do so, scientists...
...demand that we all approve. There is a significant body of evidence indicating that their so-called alternative life-style is in fact a dangerous aberration. Your comment that "Ellen is far from the first TV series to take on a controversial social issue" is also revealing. Any implied parallel between the dramatizing of Lucy's pregnancy and of Ellen's moral deviance is a real slap in the face to motherhood and the family. ROBERT COTTRILL Pambrun, Saskatchewan...
Breton says that one of the elements to consider when approaching the question of diversity is language. The dual presence of French and English in Canada, according to Breton, has no parallel in America...
...fishing boats cower under misty, mountains. In Yellow Cliffs, three Benday dot cliff faces drop steeply from the painting's upper left corner. At the bottom, Lichtenstein's fluid, black contour describes an undulating boulder. This black outline, originally taken from comic books, contains a small patch of red parallel lines, which were used to denote shading in the half-tone prints of newspapers and magazines...
Five minutes with David Sedaris are enough to confirm that most everything in Naked is true. He reenacts his old nervous tics one by one, rolling his eyes incredibly far back in his head, and stipulating that the pen resting on my pad be exactly parallel to the edge of the table. He admits that if he had gotten into Harvard, he'd have been "the biggest fucking snob you ever...