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Hopkins Emergency Physician Warns Of Post-hurricane Disease And Illnes
A Johns Hopkins emergency physician who spent the past five weeks working on public health issues in the Gulf Coast region following hurricane Katrina warns that the disaster's potential for wreaking havoc and damage to people's health may continue for months after the hurricane has passed. Gallery: When Geeky Goes Bad - Tackiest PC Mods
Even though we're custom-design fanatics, we recognize a fine line between the good and the gaudy of DIY creations. Take a tour as we turn our noses up at some of the most tasteless PC mods out there. Uncertainties Of Savanna Habitat Drive Birds To Cooperative Breeding
Birds of a feather flock together, but for African starlings, this is true primarily in savannas, where cooperation improves survival in the unpredictable habitat, according to researchers. Cooperative breeding, where helpers forego breeding to gather food for the offspring of other group members, seems to be a successful survival strategy with the highly variable rainfall of the savanna. Savanna habitats may have led to cooperative social behavior in other species also. Muscle Repair: Making A Good System Better, Faster; Implications For A
Skeletal muscles naturally repair themselves very efficiently but researchers at the Universities of Illinois-Chicago and Michigan found that a deficiency in plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) actually promotes muscle regeneration, making PAI-1 "a therapeutic target for enhancing muscle regeneration."The plasminogen system's interaction with inflammatory, growth factor and other systems is more complicated than thought, indicating the plasminogen system likely may have multiple functions, with implications for aging, liver, lungs, heart, and degenerative diseases like muscular dystrophy. New Theory Explains Schizophrenia As Abnormal Courtship; Disorder Surv
Scientifically, schizophrenia should not exist. It crushes sexual relationships and reproductive success. Because the illness is genetic, evolution should have eliminated it long ago. Instead, it continues to afflict one in 100 people, too many to be due to just a few kinds of bad genes. A new theory proposes that schizophrenia is an inevitable consequence of courtship behaviors that have evolved expressly to reveal bad genes. New Protein Synthesis Not Essential To Memory Formation
New research challenges the premise that the brain must build new proteins in response to an experience for that experience to be recorded in long-term memory. The findings could alter basic assumptions about the role of protein synthesis in memory formation. Humorous 'Bot'Recognizes Jokes
Researchers recently unveiled a "bot"-- more accurately a software program -- that recognizes jokes. All bad jokes aside, their research represents a step forward in computers reaching the capability of a human mind. Secret Of Smallpox's Success May Lead To Bioterror Cure
In disease, as in war, offensive strategies can become weaknesses, if the defenders see the enemy coming and compensate for its weapons. By manipulating what is perhaps the most devastating trick in cellular weaponry of pox viruses like smallpox, ASU virologist and Biodesign Institute researcher Bertram Jacobs believes that he can turn the biochemical machinery of the pox viruses against themselves -- and protect the public against catastrophic bioterror attacks. Eleanor &Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. T
Facsimiles and transcriptions of the 1945-1959 correspondence between Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. The correspondence shows how "from a formal, often wary, political relationship developed also a strong friendship. Ultimately, Harry Truman designated Eleanor Roosevelt as his representative on the United Nations and 'First Lady of the World.'"Includes biographies, lesson plans, photos, and related links. A joint project of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library. Backstage With a Text Actress
Horny housewives want to meet you now? Maybe not, but they do enjoy flexible hours and the ability to work from home -- even if the pay is crap. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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