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...course, if you're not taking Prozac yet, you probably will be once the cell phone panic takes hold. Apparently, cell phones don't only cause us to wreck our cars and die in fiery balls of steel, they also may contribute to the development of brain tumors. After years of pooh-poohing the dangers (and happily pocketing checks from Nokia and Motorola), the government has finally gotten nervous enough to sponsor a study in which cell phone users' brains will be carefully monitored (although not while they're driving). Nothing is clear at this point; cell phones could...
...played a critical role in the brain. In its normal form it helps support the axons--long projections that carry signals from one nerve cell to another--holding them together like ties on a railroad track. When tau goes bad and clumps into tangles, the axons shrivel up and die. The case for tau further solidified in 1998, when researchers discovered a form of dementia associated with mutations of the tau gene. People with these mutations did not develop the plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease, but at death, their brains were riddled with tangles...
...digital and downloadable, dominated by DVDs and MP3s, the more dust that gathered on my analog music tapes and VHS cassettes, the more I resolved never to abandon the trusty old paper- ink-and-glue devices that proliferate on my shelves and pile up on my floor. As a die-hard bibliophile, I'd trot out every argument in the book against e-books: they're too clunky to curl up with; they're too expensive; they can't re-create print- perfect text or the smell of a new hardback...
...thing has truly changed for France, it is the new Europe around it. Only a few die-hard nationalists doubt that France's international aims and aspirations can be achieved only through participation in the European Union. Hence the leading role that the country has taken in promoting European military cooperation and in defending European economic interests. France's strategy of using Europe to enhance its own clout--and counterbalance America's overwhelming power--demands the kind of changes that Jospin's government is trying to make, even as it offers the proud French a new forum in which...
...People in sub-Saharan Africa who die of AIDS each...