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Other rogue therapists mistreat gender-variant children by trying to force them to conform to gender rules. They use blunt behavior-modification techniques such as rewarding tomboys for wearing frilly dresses or punishing effeminate boys for playing with a Barbie. "Many of those kids become runaways, and they are damaged for life," says Gender PAC's Riki Anne Wilchins...
...Allen Roses, a rapier-tongued contrarian then at Duke University, challenged the beta-amyloid orthodoxy. He announced that he and his colleagues had found a major Alzheimer's-susceptibility gene that affected the late-onset forms of the disease. It was the gene for APOE4, a common variant of the APOE lipoprotein, which is one of the many workhorses of the body's cholesterol-transport system. What, everyone wondered, could this lipoprotein, a known risk factor for heart disease, possibly have to do with Alzheimer's? Very quickly, many concluded that Roses could not be right...
When the 'Yale system' (or some variant thereof) was considered here, there was never an expectation that those assigned to a particular upperclass House would also be housed together as first-year students," she writes. "The numbers wouldn't work right,' I think, given size and configuration of the Yard, Union dorms and of Apley...
Napster, the most popular of these software clients, has been downloaded more than 5 million times, causing its parent company's CEO, Eileen Richardson, to boast, "We're the fastest-growing company in the history of the Web." Gnutella, an open-source variant of Napster created by ex-hacker and current AOL employee Justin Frankel, 21, caused a buzz last week when AOL scurried to pull the software, calling it "an unauthorized free-lance project." AOL is planning to merge with Time Warner, a major player in the music industry. But by the time AOL yanked Gnutella, enough copies...
...GRAY-SHANKED DOUC LANGUR HOME Vietnam POPULATION fewer than 1000 --Once considered just a variant of its black- and red-shanked cousins, it is thought to be distinct and critically endangered...