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...union was having too much fun and making too much money to pay much attention to Helling's warning. It was far easier and financially prudent to ignore the issue, to assume that Helling was an alarmist prone to exaggerating, and to make sure everyone involved knew as little as possible about players injecting hard-core steroids into their asses. Don't ask, don't tell and don't care was the unwritten code...
Nine genetic locations prone to mis-coding were found to be strongly associated with early heart attack patients in a study co-authored by two Harvard Medical School professors and others in a report published in Nature Genetics last Sunday. The identification of the locations may make it easier to diagnose patients at risk, and co-author David M. Altshuler, a professor of genetics and medicine at Harvard Medical School, said that the paper provides “new biological clues.” Co-author Christopher J. O’Donnell, an HMS associate clinical professor, began collecting genetic...
...make a whole lot of sense. If homeownership is on the decline, shouldn't apartment buildings be swamped with interest? As it turns out, those two things don't neatly seesaw. The demand for apartment rentals is largely linked to employment. When people - especially young adults, who are prone to rent - don't have jobs, they're more likely to stay with family or find a roommate instead of renting a place of their own. Plus, in the wake of escalating home foreclosures, condos not selling and investor properties sitting unflipped, there are units from unconventional sources opening...
...vinyl records gave rise to scratching and skipping, analog TV created a whole gallery of hallucinatory special effects: ghosting, snow, psychedelic colors, vertical hold. We hated them at the time, but we may yet come to miss them. Digital signals are more robust than analog--they're less prone to distortion, and when they break up, they do it in tidy little squares, which aren't nearly as fun. In other words, after Feb. 17, do not attempt to adjust your television. It won't need you anymore...
...Supreme Court decisions striking down the death penalty in certain kinds of cases - the rape of a child - and concerns about the legality of executing mentally retarded or mentally ill individuals have also slowed the number of capital cases being brought. With broader legal options, the most execution-prone state of the union may increasingly be opting for some other punishment than a life for a life...