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...called dopamine D2 receptor gene, which affects the | capacity of cells to absorb dopamine, one of the brain's chemical transmitters. This gene was one of several suspects that researchers speculated might be an underlying cause of alcoholism. The scientists were amazed to find that the gene was present in 77% of the alcoholics and in only 28% of the nonalcoholics. The association was "surprisingly strong," said Dr. Enoch Gordis, head of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Exactly how the dopamine D2 receptor gene might predispose someone to alcoholism is not understood, but dopamine has been linked...
...Marines on a search-and- destroy mission to the hamlet of Cam Ne. It was mostly destroy. The footage of troops burning peasant huts was seen by millions on the CBS News. It was an era of "tragic foolishness," says Safer in Flashbacks, an artful contrast of past and present that recalls a time when the typewriter, not the portable hair dryer, was the essential tool of the TV journalist...
...create an indigenous, secular Israeli. Religious concerns were ceded to the ultra-orthodox, who have never understood the need for Judaism to incorporate democratic values." Because Israeli society failed to develop a compelling spiritual option to replace the victim-oriented philosophy of the East European ghetto, Labor's present leaders are constantly beholden to a religious perspective antithetical to all they value. As a result, they regularly lose both religious and electoral battles. "They are wonderful when talking to Barbara Walters," says Hartman, "but miserable when it comes to touching tradition-bound Israelis...
...South African leader again rejected the central demand of the opposition African National Congress: majority rule on the basis of one man, one vote. White power, the President made clear, must be protected. Said De Klerk: "Those who enjoy full political rights at present are not prepared to bow out apologetically from the stage of history...
...purpose of the discussion, entitled "Earth Day 1990: 20 Years of Environmentalism" was to discuss the past, present, and future of environmental action. The panel, cosponsored by the Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee and Phillips Brooks House's Environmental Action Committee, drew an audience of more than 80 people...