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...those the earth exerts on an apple, pull it apart like molecular Velcro. Why bother? To study how proteins and nucleic acids fold into their complex structures. That's a matter of considerable interest to drug designers, who tailor molecules to monkey-wrench the proteins that make us sick...
...Begin with simple explanations: Some men grow a beard because they have the good grace to get sick of their own faces in the mirror. I've done that once or twice. I wanted a vacation from my face. Imagine how sick of your face you would be if, like Gore, you had to see it on every television screen and newspaper every day for years...
...people studying to become lay ministers," she says. "Once they?ve completed their studies, they can take on many of the duties traditionally taken on by priests. They won?t be able to perform the sacraments, like marriages and funerals, but they can bring communion to the sick...
...bogus. For Chandra's mother Susan, it was an especially hard episode. "I'm not holding up very well," she tells TIME. "It's been a very rough week." Levy says both she and her husband Robert take sleeping pills and tranquilizers at night. "I'm often sick to my stomach. It's sheer terror." Still, Levy won't call for Gary Condit to quit. "Let the people decide for themselves." But she does take a shot at California Governor Gray Davis, noting that he hasn't called the family, whereas the state's two Senators have...
...laid off but just find it difficult to find a job. For example, Camilla Zadruzny, 36, has been unemployed since 1999, when she left work at a nursing home to have a fourth child. "If you have four kids, employers aren't interested because they think kids will be sick and you'll be home from work," she says. Even though her conventional unemployment benefits have expired, Zadruzny collects a $670 monthly study grant, a $250 rent grant and $520 in state child support. Sweden has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the developed world at 4.2%, down from...