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...addition to their brains, the nuns have provided Snowdon with a wealth of biochemical and behavioral information-- blood samples, test scores and even autobiographical sketches written in their teens and 20s. Last year, Snowdon and his colleagues caused a stir when they found a tantalizing if tenuous connection between the nuns' schoolgirl writing styles and the likelihood of developing Alzheimer's later on. Out of a group of 25 nuns who died between 1991 and 1995, the researchers reported, those whose writing samples contained the lowest density of ideas per paragraph were the most likely to develop Alzheimer's. Could...
...that knowledge is tamped down because the stakes are so high. To voice any doubts might jeopardize our tenuous hold on first trimester abortions and could give aid and succor to the other side, which ranges from morons who kill doctors to the rank and file who would protect zygotes. Give those people a month and they will take nine. It will be you, your doctor and Jesse Helms at the sonogram...
...children, at a downtown Tel Aviv cafe. The bomber, claimed as a member by Hamas, was also killed by the nail-studded explosive device. Israel responded to the attack by barring Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from entering Israel. The attack could further strain the tenuous peace between Arabs and Jews already tested by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence on building new Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. The bombing, the first such attack in over a year, was condemned by Yasser Arafat, but Netanyahu blamed the Palestinian leader for the incident, charging that Arafat...
...side's remaining obligations on issues ranging from changes to the PLO charter to the opening of a "safe passage" between the West Bank and Gaza. Still resisting all attempts at negotiation are the passionate critics in Netanyahu?s own government. The closer he moves to Arafat, the more tenuous is his control...
...groups have scored in the past. The chart slippage of these and other megagroups, coupled with the sad state of the industry in general, has set music executives abuzz--about the declining aesthetics of alternative rock, about what the next Next Big Thing will be, and especially about the tenuous status of their jobs (several labels, including Atlantic, have had staff cutbacks recently; and three music chains, Wherehouse Entertainment, Camelot Music and Peaches Entertainment, have filed for bankruptcy protection in the past 18 months...