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...sleeping soundly at his hospital bedside on the morning of Jan. 4 when Chris managed, somehow, without being seen or heard, to maneuver himself and his portable IV pole around her, out of the room and past the nurse's station with its 360 degrees view of the ward. All Melissa remembers is being shaken awake at 3 a.m. by a frantic nurse who was saying something about not being able to find Chris...
...that "if we can't work it out, we will disagree, and the thing won't happen," it sounded like an open invitation for opponents of the change to mobilize. Political insiders, however, sensed in the ousting of Aspin what they termed "inoculation" politics: the White House wanted to ward off Republican criticism of defense cuts. Though White House officials say there was no single incident that led to Aspin's departure, the murderous firefight in Mogadishu made it a foregone conclusion, especially after it was followed by a disastrous closed-door briefing to Congress at which Aspin was reportedly...
...last week's announcement that an international team of scientists, led by Dr. Daniel Cohen at the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphism in Paris, has produced the first full-fledged -- if still rough -- map of the human genome. "This is a major step forward," says David Ward, a Yale geneticist who has been analyzing the map for errors. "It's a first pass, and it will have its warts. But it's still significant...
...three drinks a day are about half as likely to suffer heart attacks as nondrinkers are. The apparent source of the protection: those who drank alcohol had higher blood levels of high-density lipoproteins, or HDLs, the so-called good cholesterol, which is known to ward off heart disease...
...tiny ray of Hollywood sunshine in the storm of 20th century chaos. While seeming to look clearly at the world, they ignore the bitter, deprived existences of most people who live in it: in Ukraine or Ireland or Vietnam, or in the death camp of an AIDS ward...