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...disorder comes to you through the genes, the next job is to determine which ones. A team of investigators at Johns Hopkins University last summer discovered half a dozen areas in the human genome that appear to be linked to the development of OCD. Analyzing 1,008 blood samples from 219 families in which at least two siblings had the disorder, they discovered gene markers at six sites on five chromosomes that appear more frequently in those kids than in family members and other people without OCD. That study did not tease out how those genes do their damage...
...Obsessive Compulsive Foundation convention in Atlanta last summer, Grayson, the Pennsylvania-based clinical psychologist, gave those in attendance who had OCD a quick taste of ERP. Inviting the ones in the audience with dirt and germ anxieties to come forward, he instructed them to sit beside him on the ballroom carpet. Then he told them to touch the carpet and bring their fingers to their lips. Left to themselves, most would have refused or, if they went along, would have then found the nearest bathroom and spent long minutes--perhaps long hours--scrubbing. Instead, they sat with Grayson...
Gasoline prices are reacting to different forces. As the summer season slows, consumption worries are no longer inflating prices. Refinery utilization, which was hampered by having a few key refineries offline back when gas prices spiked in May, is back to normal, though gas inventories are still a bit low. [This article contains a chart. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...Summer gasoline prices have been milder than feared...
CONTEXT Chief Justice John Roberts was briefly hospitalized after a seizure caused him to fall out of a boat and onto a dock at his summer home in Maine. So far, all tests are normal, and the Justice, who has always had a clean bill of health--aside from a similar incident in 1993--has only minor scrapes...