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...that California has the strictest gun regulations in the United States, and his attempt to play the "race card" is totally inappropriate--the shooter wasn't even in Arenson's neighborhood long enough to absorb the alleged culture of racism that Arenson proposes is the root cause of this random act of violence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...four subcategories, all of which would have had meaning for our ancient ancestors: fear of insects or animals; fear of natural environments, like heights and the dark; fear of blood or injury; and fear of dangerous situations, like being trapped in a tight space. "Phobias are not random," says Michelle Craske, psychologist at UCLA's Anxiety and Behavioral Disorders Program. "We tend to fear anything that threatens our survival as a species." When times change, new fears develop, but the vast majority still fit into one of the four groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fear Not! | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...hosts of the new reality show now or never run through the streets of German cities with camera crews, stopping people at random to ask if they would like a free plane ticket to an exotic destination like Bali. The catch is the plane is leaving in two hours, they have to go alone and they must race an unknown number of other contestants to get to the airport ticket counter first. The audience competes for a second free ticket by downloading street maps and other information from the Web to become the first to figure out which contestant will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interactive! | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

Still, the Washington University study does not prove that all MCI is an early stage of Alzheimer's disease. Participants were not chosen at random but had volunteered to be part of the trial. Because a family member or someone close to them had already noticed a change in their mental acuity, the results of the trial may have been skewed. In addition, it's not easy to know where normal forgetfulness ends and clinically significant impairment begins. The Food and Drug Administration invited a panel of experts to Washington last week to try to tackle the problem. The National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing Memories | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...theory industry.) In 1979, an investigation conducted by Congress's House Assassinations Committee disagreed - a fourth shot, which missed, had been fired from behind a white picket fence on that grassy knoll. In 1982, however, a special panel of the National Academy of Sciences insisted the fourth shot was random background noise, probably static...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grassy Knoll Is Back | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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