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...possibility of early diagnosis arises from advanced brain-mapping technology and new insights into the genetics of Alzheimer's. In recent years, researchers have learned that the disease is linked to the presence of a gene called Apo-E4. But the gene does not always trigger the illness; people with one copy of the gene have perhaps a 50% chance of getting Alzheimer's, and for those with two copies the likelihood rises to about 90% by age 80. In no cases can geneticists reliably predict at what age the disease will start...
...seeks to hold antiabortionist John Burt and his group, Rescue America, liable for Gunn's murder outside a Florida clinic two years ago. It claims that the gunman, Michael Griffin, was influenced by the group's violent rhetoric. "We don't have to show that anyone else pulled the trigger but that the shooting was encouraged to stop abortions," explains Dees, who has won two similar "wrongful death'' cases, against the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama and a white supremacist group in Oregon...
...confronted Hill. "For the cause of Christ, for the sake of the children and the sake of your own family, cease and desist from spewing this misrepresentation of the Scripture," Benham recalls telling Hill in a corridor. Hill refused, but he promised others that he would never pull the trigger...
Three months later, Hill did pull the trigger. Twice. He killed Dr. John Britton and his escort, retired Air Force officer James Barrett, outside a Pensacola, Florida, clinic, not far from the one where Griffin had killed Gunn. Griffin too had ties to the extreme wing of the movement. The week before the Gunn shooting, Griffin had met five times with Burt, the Pensacola-based official of Rescue America. Burt showed Griffin and his wife gory videos of dismembered fetuses and a life-size effigy of Gunn with bloodstained hands and the biblical inscription, "If man sheds man's blood...
...five of his eight children, who were playing in the next room. "These unborn babies are people worthy of protection," he explains. "There's nothing un-Christian about protecting the lives of the unborn." Although he signed Hill's justifiable homicide petition, Bray says he would never pull the trigger. "Of course," he adds, "if I had the zeal to go out and take some action, I wouldn't tell...