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There is a very large gap between recognizing how addiction looks on a brain scan and developing therapies that are effective enough to safely abolish addictive behavior. Brain scans will someday lead to improved therapy, but not for many years to come...
...truly a mystery. Peter G. Peterson, a co-founder of the Blackstone Group, was one of the great deficit bores of the 1980s and 1990s, warning about the huge gap between what society had promised people and what would be available to keep those promises. (He was right, but it was still boring.) Peterson made $1.88 billion when Blackstone went public last month. Here was an opportunity for statesmanship that you would have thought Peterson would be unable to resist. Like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Sr., he could be the rich man who speaks the truth to other rich...
...patients can expect in the first decade after cancer treatment. But "what we don't know is what happens to people as they age further out, 20 to 30 years beyond that," says Dr. Charles Sklar of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. To fill that gap, Hudson and St. Jude epidemiologist Les Robison are launching one of the most ambitious follow-up programs yet. They plan to contact 5,000 patients who have celebrated their 10-year survival anniversary and invite them to come back for free checkups for the rest of their lives. The program...
...Donato] was essential in the way that he related to the players and helped us understand the mentality that we would need to have going into the off-season and the pros,” Grumet-Morris said. “In the transition period, he bridged that gap by telling us what it is that players and management are looking for in younger guys at the next level...
...election results, rather than providing aid and comfort to those who hoped to close the party's 30-year God gap, actually did the opposite. Democratic House candidates pulled in 67% of the secular, nonchurchgoing vote last year - 7 percentage points more than in 2004. That growth spurt made it easier for skeptical factions inside the party's power structure to argue that nonreligious voters are an even more vital part of the Democratic coalition now - and that religious outreach is a waste of precious resources and time...