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...therapists)) that was malicious. It was more a case of negligence." The ruling does not answer the question of what happened to Holly Ramona. (No criminal charges have been filed against her father.) But it will almost certainly make recovered-memory therapists more cautious about how they try to unravel such questions in the future...
Tonya Harding may have missed a crucial triple Axel in Lillehammer, but she managed to execute a flawless triple entendre in Oregon last week. Standing abjectly before Judge Donald Londer, Harding pleaded guilty to hindering investigators' efforts to unravel the conspiracy behind the Jan. 6 attack on skater Nancy Kerrigan. Then Harding offered the hushed courtroom a single sentence: "I'd just like to say I'm really sorry that I interfered." It was a nice bit of public contrition, but what exactly did it mean? Was Harding * sorry that that her actions had obstructed the investigation...
...uses this structure not for any purpose so much as to revel in it for its sake. Modern authors like Calvino use a similar framework to lay bare all the peculiar social and intellectual conventions of reading , to strike at the very heart of our understanding of narrative, to unravel the fabric of reality-to bring the universe of perception to its knees. Schami uses it because it's cool and exotic...
...even with the best of tools, the progress is uneven. DNA, it turns out, is full of surprises. As scientists unravel the secrets of the genome, they are discovering that what they learned from Gregor Mendel is woefully incomplete. The textbook model of inheritance that Mendel found in his garden peas -- in which a trait like the color of a flower is determined by a single gene -- is almost never seen in human DNA. Even a seemingly straightforward characteristic in humans, eye color, for instance, can involve the interaction of several genes. And a complex gene, like the one that...
That Game happened in 1968. And on this, its 25th anniversary, it is time once more to piece together the scraps of paper that recount the story, to pour over photographs that capture the moments. In short, it is time unravel that Game's thread and in so doing strengthen its fabric...