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...snow days.) Brown has said he signed up for the show to counter his tabloid image, but also to boost an R&B career that peaked in the Reagan Administration. "I'm just an entertainer, man, that is trying hard to get back in," he told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
Almost lost in the hoopla over the stem cells cloned in South Korea was a stem-cell breakthrough closer to home--in more ways than one. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at Duke University Medical Center reported that infants born with a fatal nerve disorder have been helped--and perhaps even saved--by treatment with stem cells taken from the umbilical cords of healthy babies...
Nelson would have a tough time getting this stuff published in a major journal like Science or Nature. But he doesn't have to, thanks to an organization called the Society for Scientific Exploration, or S.S.E., which held its annual meeting outside Gainesville, Fla., last week. The location--a Best Western overlooking Interstate 75--wasn't quite so lavish as the conference centers where neurologists or physicists routinely meet. Yet that didn't seem to matter for the hundred or so researchers who came to hear learned talks on, among other things, consciousness physics, astrology and parapsychology. Here...
Given this remarkable mix of acceptance and skepticism, it's not so surprising, then, that Henry Bauer, the editor of S.S.E.'s journal and a dean emeritus at Virginia Tech, wrote the definitive treatise debunking Immanuel Velikovsky, whose best-selling books in the 1950s argued that Old Testament miracles were triggered by close encounters with Venus. But it's also not surprising that that same Henry Bauer has published papers arguing that scientists have ignored powerful evidence that the Loch Ness Monster is real...
...each side, from evangelical ministers on the right to a group calling itself the Hip Hop Coalition on the left. But it does not rank in the concerns of most people, and it comes at a time when Americans are already holding Congress in low regard. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll last week showed public approval of Congress at 33%, which is the lowest since 1994, the year voters got angry enough to topple the Democratic majority of the Senate and the House...