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BAGHDAD: They keep on knocking but they can't come in. Monday, for the third time in a week, those wacky Iraqis turned away U.N. weapons inspection teams - for the simple crime of including Americans. The Iraqis have yet to explain precisely why being American should impair an inspector?s ability to monitor the dismantling of weapons of mass destruction, in compliance with the Gulf War cease-fire agreement...
When United Parcel Service (UPS) workers went on strike two weeks ago, they intended to impair the shipping company's business; yet the labor dispute may also hurt students and professors this fall when needed text fail to arrive at academic bookstores across the nation...
With 34 Law School professors, President Bok sends a letter to Congress that calls. President Nixon's busing proposals "a failure in leadership" and warns that "the two bills, if enacted, would sacrifice the enforcement of constitutional rights, impair the functions of the judiciary under a rule of law, and jeopardize the improved schooling for many, many children...
...Leary-Alpert expose, quickly made national news, owing in no small part to the kindly conclusions he reached about the contraband plant. "Marijuana did appear to raise heart rate," Weil says, "but it didn't seem to affect pupil size or blood sugar. More important, it didn't really impair performance, at least in people who had some experience with it. It seemed to be a rather mild intoxicant...
...question, scientists must first understand what causes Alzheimer's, and right now they have only intriguing clues. The most popular hypothesis holds that the disease process starts when a protein called beta amyloid accumulates outside nerve cells, forming the deposits known as plaques. Among other things, plaques appear to impair the ability of neurons to absorb glucose from the bloodstream, generating an energy crisis inside the cell. A competing hypothesis maintains that Alzheimer's begins not with beta amyloid but with a protein called tau. Abnormal variants of this protein, say scientists, clutter the interiors of neurons with tangled filaments...