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Johnson's lawyer wouldn't speak with TIME about Conley's allegations (or anything else). But Johnson herself had previously rejected any suggestion that she was involved. Hospital officials, she says, "act like I went into Wal-Mart and switched my baby. I'm not ... a rocket scientist, but I'm not an idiot. Why would I switch my kid? It doesn't make sense." It's also worth mentioning that Melissa Conley and Johnson don't get along and that Melissa nurses a grudge toward her brother's ex. "I'm scared of this woman," Melissa told TIME...
...English scientist S. A. Zeki thought he had identified the region of the brain used to recognize color in the 1970s. Working with macaque monkeys, Zeki found that there was one region of the brain, V4, responsible for color and another, V5, respon- sible for motion...
...BRAINIAC An ambitious scientist is bent on world domination, but Superman--who is smart but not too smart--stops...
...month, the hard-liners have put the moderate mayor of Tehran on trial on corruption charges, ousted a key Khatami Cabinet minister and ordered the closure of a new liberal newspaper licensed under the President's pledge of greater press freedom. "What we are seeing," says Tehran University political scientist Nasser Hadian, "is a fight for the soul of Iran...
When he was in high school, Eric Liu labored desperately not to be defined by his race. He made himself into a "Renaissance boy"--a wrestler and musician, prizewinning scientist and newspaper editor--all to avoid the stereotypes commonly affixed to young Asian-American males. As Liu writes in his new book, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker (Random House; 206 pages; $23), his effort to distinguish himself didn't always work: "In the eyes of some, I suppose, I was simply another Asian 'overachiever...