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...discovery by Duke psychologist Avshalom Caspi of a "depression gene," which was among the first to be associated with mental illness - a notably difficult class of diseases to pin down, genetically speaking - inspired dozens of similar studies. While many researchers had suspected that 5-HTTLPR played a significant role in depression risk, Caspi was the first to establish an association by studying depressed people who had also experienced a stressful life event, such as the death of a child or sudden unemployment. What Caspi's 2003 epidemiological study, published in Science, found was that people with one or two copies...
...texting each other like two kids in college. I'm going to give him every opportunity to say what his plans are, how his arm is, who he's talked to. I'm going to ask him every question that needs to be asked. I'm not going to pin him down and shine a light in his eyes and torture him until he answers questions, but I'm going to do my best...
Most presidents are easy to pin down on our cultural maps. Ronald Reagan was raised in Dixon, Ill., but we placed him in Hollywood, telling America's story on the big screen. Bill Clinton may have been the Man from Hope, Ark., but the mischief of nearby Hot Springs was in his blood. George W. Bush was practically born on the Yale campus, yet Texas was his true terroir...
...agree with it. I'm not there to pin someone to the wall. If I were to begin an interview with Nancy Pelosi and say, "Why did you lie about torture?" the last thing I will learn is the truth. I'd be putting them on the defensive to make me look good. At that point, they're a prop. To me, the guest is not a prop...
...Taxpayers resent being told that any human can know how many angels can stand on the head of a pin. They are alarmed that this information could then be used to deprive them of a social safety net in the future or that they will be required to pay a greater portion of their wages into the federal system. The subject that has not been raised with the announcement of the new projection about the Social Security and Medicare funds is what government expenses might be eliminated to save benefits from the two programs decades from now. People would like...