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...scientists from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Helsinki believe that they have found the answer. "What has heretofore been called familial colon cancer can now be called heritable colon cancer," says Dr. Bert Vogelstein, professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins. "Our groups have proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that a genetically determined predisposition to colon cancer exists." About 1 in 7 cases of colon cancer -- the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the world -- can be attributed to this faulty gene...
These lessons are important, but in the shadow of the Holocaust rather banal. They do not require the authority of Auschwitz. They follow easily enough from Soweto and Howard Beach, from Sarajevo and Nagorno-Karabakh...
...want," says Tribe "and to express any viewpoint, however hateful, has nothing to do with some kind of license to target victims of violence based on their race, sex, religion or sexual orientation." If the court struck down these laws, he adds, "the decision would cast a long shadow of doubt over all antidiscrimination measures and much of criminal law because the state of mind of the offenders is typically a critical element of how crimes are defined and how punishment is meted...
...many observers felt he provided this trial's most compelling moments. Rather than experience him only as a silent presence or a moving shadow on videotape, jurors could see the fateful night through his eyes. He described lying on the ground waiting to be handcuffed, only to be shocked by Koon with a stun gun. He recalled running toward his car, throwing his hands over his face. He said, in complete accord with the evidence, "I wasn't trying to hit any police officer." Said Denver trial lawyer Dan Caplis, a consultant on the case for NBC News: "The whole...
...Thanksgiving in 1991, Patricia Newlin, a lapsed Lutheran, met a young co- worker, a born-again Christian, on a business trip to Paris. They walked along the Seine in the shadow of Notre Dame and discussed the idea that we all carry around with us a God-shaped vacuum and try unceasingly to fill it with other things. "That notion just struck an incredibly responsive chord in me," remembers Newlin. She realized that she "had created an idol out of work, had sacrificed my time and effort to it, and it stopped working." She was baptized in January...