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...backlash has taken a toll. In the past year, a proposed federal research initiative that would have included biological studies has been assailed, and a scheduled conference on genetics and crime has been canceled. A session on heredity and violence at February's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science turned into a politically correct critique of the research; no defenders of such studies showed up on the panel. "One is basically under attack in this field," observes one federal researcher, who like many is increasingly hesitant to talk about his work publicly...
...dedicated sports journalists, but reality takes its toll. So when we goof, as we did with the crew coverage last week, know that it had nothing to do with gender bias and everything to do with being human. The Radcliffe crew is right that our Sunday crew article was slanted towards the men's races. We regret...
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOOD TERMINAL ILLness, but people who know Alzheimer's disease consider it one of the worst. Its slow and agonizing course leads inexorably from memory lapses to personality changes to utter loss of intellectual functions to certain death. The emotional toll on the estimated 4 million Americans who suffer from the disease and on their families is incalculable; the bills for nursing care are enormous...
...suddenly pierced the night and continued for hours. When it was over, 14 had been killed, including a policeman. Eight coordinated raids in the Cairo area and one north of the capital produced more shoot-outs and more casualties: a total of 23 dead and 46 injured, the highest toll since the assassination of Anwar Sadat...
Four of the dead were Port Authority workers, whose offices and locker rooms were located on the lower levels that sustained the worst damage. More than 24 hours after the blast, two other workers were still missing. But the toll was less severe than first feared. Though some suffered major injuries, most of the victims were treated for smoke inhalation or minor burns...