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...politicians who will show up to defend them on Election Day--and that issue is at the core of the White House's political calculation on stem cells. The White House looks at the poll numbers and is concerned about a possible backlash from fundamentalist Catholics and Evangelicals, the shock troops who vote, especially in midterm elections. Bush's G.O.P. can't have them sitting at home in protest if it is to hold the House and win back the Senate...
Finally, there's the foot. "What's important here is the arch," Lovejoy says. "It's a really important shock absorber. It's like wearing a good pair of running shoes." In order to create that arch, the chimp's opposable great toe became aligned with the others, and the toe's muscles and ligaments, which had been used for grasping and climbing, were repositioned under the foot. "The shape of the big toe is indicative of this. You can see it in Lucy's species," Lovejoy says, but not in the bone Haile-Selassie found, because it's from...
...biggest shock would come in the form of unemployment. Calling in those loans would force the loan-takers to sell off assets, resulting in many cases in bankruptcy. Already, bankruptcies are at a record high. In the 12 months through June 19, 194 companies went belly-up according to bankruptcy trackers Teikoku Databank. Among those were national institutions like the Sogo chain of department stores and giant insurance company Tokyo Mutual Life...
...middle of the antiwar movement, Maddux had left Tyler, Texas, and a home ruled by a proud and disciplined World War II veteran to attend Bryn Mawr College, a select Main Line liberal arts school for women. By some accounts, she never recovered from the shock and drifted like a windblown leaf through relationships and jobs after graduation. Within days of their meeting, the Unicorn carried this wounded deer back to his lair, a squalid apartment near Penn...
...destroying the country's health-care system, the war has provided the fuel - widespread rape, massive movement of people, the arrival of foreign troops - for the disease to spread more quickly. Revolutionary United Front rebels, for instance, routinely kept women as sex slaves and used rape as a shock tactic in their bloody campaign. Drug use, especially among teenage soldiers, was also common. "These are high-risk people," says Moses. "But they just don't know it." Sierra Leone's army says it has been too busy fighting to worry about the disease. "This is a war situation," says...