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...came as a bit of a surprise. That gene's activity affects the junction between nerve cells, where various neurochemicals work to relay signals from one nerve cell to another. While most of the research attention in Alzheimer's has been on the build up of amyloid protein and tau tangles that strangle nerve function, the identification of PICALM suggests that some part of the disease may have to do with a breakdown in nerve-cell communication at the junctures. "If you had given people a list of genes and said which ones were involved in late onset Alzheimer...
...behind me and live my life," Gadd told reporters after completing that sentence. But in 2002, after a move to Cambodia, authorities there permanently expelled Gadd from the country as a "preventative measure" to curb childhood sex abuse. In 2005 police in the southern Vietnamese coastal city of Vung Tau charged Gadd with raping two minors, punishable by death by firing squad. Gadd denied these charges, but did confess to showering with at least one girl and sharing his bed with her because she was afraid of ghosts. According to Gadd's lawyer in Vietnam, Gadd paid the victims' families...
...romance began in a slightly sketchy, albeit familiar, way. On his brother’s advice, J. Andy Tau ’07 was trolling through the freshman facebook looking for beautiful women when he came across the picture of Jocelyn D. Hsu ’07. “And what do you know,” Tau, a Houston native, remembers. “The most beautiful girl in there was Asian, from Texas, and I had already met her doing dorm crew, so it was perfect.” The couple is getting married on July...
...Action Committee of the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Xi Tau Chapter, the Harvard AIDS Coalition, and Harvard Students of Color Against AIDS (SOCAA) co-sponsored the two-hour long event, entitled “Inspiring Action through Awareness...
...FRANCIS GADD, 61, a.k.a. Gary Glitter, flamboyant British rocker famous for 1970s hits such as I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am!), who was convicted of molesting two underage Vietnamese girls, both 11 at the time; to the minimum sentence of three years in prison; in Vung Tau, Vietnam. Gadd, who has maintained his innocence, was convicted in 1999 of possessing child pornography in Britain and in 2002 was expelled from Cambodia after he came under suspicion of pedophilia. He will be eligible for parole as soon as November...