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...either disorder. What lends neurogenetics its literally mind-boggling puzzles are questions addressing possible interactions of these genes: Do the additive effects of a number of genes create the phenotypic spectrum of the trait (for example, in BPAD from mild depression to rapid cycling BPAD)? Must a critical threshold be reached for manifestation of the illness? Even if a person has all of the genes that code for a disorder might its expression be prevented or mitigated by protector genes (These genes manufacture factors that can switch off the genes that are doing the damage)? Genes of this type...
...Wahid is known to his 212 million fellow citizens, waited for the soothsayer to finish before crossing the threshold. "It was the black power of Suharto," says Yenny, the President's daughter. "He was trying to hurt...
...threshold for SINEAD O'CONNOR to make it onto this page is pretty high. When you've enraged Frank Sinatra, defaced a picture of Pope John Paul II on national television and later been "ordained" a Catholic priest, no mere dustup/divorce/nude-photo scandal will cut it. So here it is: O'Connor is coming out of the closet. "I am a lesbian," she declared in a June 8 letter to the British music mag Hot Press. "I love men, but I prefer sex with women and I prefer romantic relationships with women." In an upcoming issue of Curve, the largest-circulation...
They walked to the alarmed door at the back of the giant hall, leaving the sheets and the broken table to puzzle tomorrow's workers. Pausing at the threshold, he turned to aim his orange-stained glass at the statue's head. Before plastic struck marble, they were out the door. Members of the 35th Reunion Class still awake at that hour looked out their Canaday windows to see two dark figures turn the corner onto Prescott Street. Behind them, under the stained-glass windows of Annenberg Hall, John Quincy Adams shrieked out an alarm to a vast and empty...
...impatient. I have a low threshold for mediocrity. Very...