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Tens of thousands of impoverished people -- mainly blacks and other minorities -- living in the countless Altgeld Gardens and Forest Glens in the inner cities and rural pockets of the nation are the victims of what critics call environmental racism. The victimizers are mainly waste-management firms and local politicians hoping...
The two experiments rely on a technology that has evolved over the past 12 years. Each uses a virus to act as a kind of biological taxi to transport a desired gene into the nucleus of human blood cells. In one experiment, a team led by Dr. Steven Rosenberg proposes...
The experiment has inspired some unavoidable clowning around. Captain Tom Taylor of the Ada County sheriff's department jokes that it is hard to persuade prisoners "to wear the little red nose and the funny hair." In fact, the inmates wear their own clothes and are routinely warned to use...
Hitchens has a wonderful eye for zany manifestations of Brit kitsch. In 1890, for example, some idealistic Shakespeareans decided to release in New York City's Central Park every bird mentioned by the bard -- more than 50 species in all -- that was not already native to the region. Instead of...
The Wisconsin study, led by Dr. Daniel Rudman, was the first to test the effects of HGH in healthy elderly patients. The experiment involved 21 men between the ages of 61 and 81 who had negligible levels of HGH. Twelve of the men gave themselves injections of synthetic hormone three...