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Beaver cites last month's prevention study as key to understanding how to best make use of his latest findings on MAO-A and gang membership. If policymakers wish to prevent violence, he says, money would be better spent not hunting for gene-based drugs, say, but expanding and improving neighborhood-based intervention programs, such as early childhood education and after-school activities...
...think you should try to be as funny as you can. He's right that sometimes you see a winning caption that's clever but not really funny. But there are others I've seen - not mine, I hasten to add - that really are terrific and funny. I wish I could say mine were really funny, but I think they fall more into the clever category. You know: "That works...
Amelia Earhart: Sometimes I wish I could just disappear...
...seem like strange bedfellows; many criticize the Internet for the layoffs, buyouts and bleeding bottom lines that characterize the news business today. But, as emphasized by a report released last month by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the World Association of Newspapers, traditional news outlets must "cross the digital abyss" if they wish to survive. The problem, of course, is scraping together the capital to invest in new technologies. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...founding father of migraine theory is a Victorian physician named Edward Liveing, who called them "nerve-storms," but references to them can be pried out of Sumerian documents 5,000 years old. The history of their treatment is about as bizarre and useless a medical menagerie as you could wish for. (Two words: beaver testes.) It's only in the past 40 years that they've have become a serious topic for mainstream medicine...