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Does the same genetic defect play a role in all manic depression? Not necessarily. Two studies also published in last week's Nature revealed no link between the chromosome 11 site and manic depression in six non-Amish families prone to the disease. Still, these findings do not undermine the important discovery of a genetic basis for the ailment. Instead, observes NIMH Psychiatrist Sevilla Detera-Wadleigh, who led one of the other studies, they suggest that more than one gene may be involved in manic depression...
...building is prone to elevator and other problems. According to residents, fire alarms frequently go off, but are usually false...
...reversed itself: the crime rate rose again in 1985 and early 1986. Blumstein offers this explanation: while there are fewer young males generally, there has been a disproportionate increase of males in the underclass. This group, with all its attendant ills of poverty, alienation and broken homes, is particularly prone to criminal behavior. "What we're seeing," says Blumstein, "is a changing social-class composition, and crime correlates with social class...
...also tell America that if it commits any stupidity, we will be prone to be killed," Steen continued. "Besides, Americans in the whole world will be the victim of our administration's stupidity...
Kohl nonetheless remains prone to the damaging gaffe. Party strategists winced two weeks ago, when he accused East Germany of holding 2,000 political prisoners in jails and "concentration camps." That allusion to the Nazi era, combined with some tasteless patriotic rhetoric, made some Kohl supporters nervous. The Chancellor's final campaign swing last week thus found him paddling back to safer shores. Said he: "Beyond all party political differences, we owe our friends, our allies and all our neighbors a clear, constant and reliable policy...