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...head of the studio's script department. "He seemed to emerge with a scornful laugh from the darkest corner of Hell," she later recalled, but with "a charm so deadly that after a couple of hours' conversation, I had to have three cups of coffee to get back to normal." She hired Ingmar that...
...exciting as the discovery is, it's a small part of the story: the new genes account for less than 1% of the risk of developing MS. In addition, about 70% of the normal, non-MS affected population has the same variants. "Every single time we have looked for genes for MS, the genes turn out to have a very small effect," says Dr. Moses Rodriguez, professor of immunology at the Mayo Clinic and a leading MS researcher." That suggests that either the disease is not genetically controlled in a significant way, or that if it is, that there...
...high school, and were even less likely to enter college if they went to a high school where few other students were overweight, says Crosnoe. But obese girls who went to high school with a sizable overweight population - where heavy girls represented about 20% of the student body - had normal odds of attending college. "The more it makes you stand out from the crowd, the worse it is," says Crosnoe...
Alternatively, obese boys were immune to what Crosnoe terms the "college effect" and were just as likely as normal-weight students to go to college. Crosnoe thinks the difference has to do with the fact that body and appearance are more central to girls' self-concept than to boys', and that the negative social effects of obesity have a more powerful impact on girls' lives, including their academic careers...
...drinking a beer, waiting for my friends…listening to the frequency. I heard a noise from far away, and at first I thought it was just normal traffic, or someone had crashed their car. But suddenly people came running through, shouting ‘come, come, a plane crashed.’ When we got close and saw the scene, the plane in flames and smoke, the eight of us were paralyzed...