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...BOTTOM LINE: The tale of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl is told with uncommon depth and vividness...
...more or less accepted that "straight" men will nonetheless have sex with other men. The rapid spread of AIDS in Brazil, for example, is attributed to homosexual behavior on the part of ostensibly heterosexual males. In the British upper class, homosexual experience used to be a not uncommon feature of male adolescence. Young Robert Graves went off to World War I pining desperately for his schoolboy lover, but returned and eventually married. And, no, he did not spend his time in the trenches buggering his comrades-in-arms...
...blame for the extreme restlessness and impulsiveness in your hyperactive child. According to research conducted at the National Institutes of Health, at least some cases of the behavioral disorder, thought to affect 3% to 5% of school-age children, are triggered by the same hereditary error that causes an uncommon endocrine disorder called generalized resistance to thyroid hormone. After studying 104 people from 18 families with a history of the rare disorder, scientists determined that 70% of affected children also suffered from hyperactivity. If confirmed, the results suggest that children who are diagnosed with hyperactivity, or attention-deficit disorder...
FINDING CERTAIN GENES CAN BE AS DIFFICULT AS LOcating a phone number without an address or a last name. Ten years after researchers figured out that the gene that causes Huntington's disease, an uncommon degenerative brain disorder, was located somewhere on the fourth of 23 pairs of human chromosomes, an international team of scientists has pinpointed the actual hereditary entry responsible for the disease...
While there exists a procedure for applying to the city for an exception from the ordinance, speakers said these were uncommon and that obtaining them entailed great risk...