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...They come in to the office with a stack of dog-eared x-ray folders, a plastic grocery store bag full of reports and things printed off the Internet. Earnest and hopeful, they tell me they even apologize in advance to the patient crowd in the waiting room for the very long time they are about to take. They are coming in for a "second-opinion...
...Anna has burning pains in her legs, pain around her hips and some low back pain. The crucial part of her story, for me, is that her pain is particularly bad when she lies in bed at night. On X-rays she has a little hip arthritis (a red herring) and quite a bit more spinal stenosis - a narrowing of the passages through which the nerves go from the spine to the legs...
...exhibit ranges from portraits to cityscapes to glimpses into the studio life. Cassatt's severe and pensive mother makes a showing in drab black dress, a prim contrast to Thomas Hovenden's slumped self-portrait (1875). But the star of the show is John Singer Sargent's notorious Madame X (1884), herself an American transplant who moved to Paris as a child, and who, like her expat painter, would always be an outsider in her adopted city.
...that's not the most startling finding. Reich's team also found that the entire human X chromosome diverged from the chimp's X chromosome about 1.2 million years later than the other chromosomes. One plausible explanation is that chimps and humans first split but later interbred from time to time before finally going their separate evolutionary ways. That could explain why some of the most ancient fossils now considered human ancestors have such striking mixtures of chimp and human traitssome could actually have been hybrids. Or they might have simply coexisted with, or even predated, the last common ancestor...
...were trumpeting the tales of infighting in Bush's war cabinet told in Bob Woodward's State of Denial, a book full of stories about an Administration pursuing a war with no clue how to go about it. And Representative Mark Foley, a Republican from Florida, resigned after his X-rated Internet chats with teenage boys from the House page program were made public. A safe seat for Republicans was suddenly in jeopardy...