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...What do you think of Katie Couric on CBS? -Christina Paschyn, Cleveland Katie, God bless her, was the first woman to go out there and become a solo anchor. It's not worked out as well as she would have liked it to. That's the result of a combination of issues. [But] we have female ceos, females in the Senate and a prominent female running for President. I think the country was ready for a female anchor. I don't think this was a gender thing...
...human mind in search of a cure and surfaces with enlightenment for us all. We are irritatedly familiar, for example, with the phenomenon of earworms - catchy tunes that loop in our heads, even when we detest them. This "defenseless engraving of music on the brain," Sacks suggests, is a result of the precision with which most of us can replay music internally; built to seek stimuli, the brain rewards itself for its fidelity with perfect repeats of songs. But for the patients in Sacks' book who suffer musical hallucinations - a related and not uncommon condition in which imaginary music seems...
...brink of extinction. Michael N. Starnbach, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, is collaborating with a team of researchers at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia to study the immune system’s response to chlamydia. They hope this research will ultimately result in the creation of a vaccine. “I would hope that we might be able to get to the first phase...of a vaccine trial within the next three to five years,” says QUT professor and fellow researcher Peter Timms. The team is working on developing genetically...
...When Davis began at Harvard, life was not such a whirlwind. Though he wanted to do both diving and crew—two sports he had competed in throughout high school—the swimming coach discouraged him from taking on too many commitments. As a result, Davis competed only on the freshman crew team his first year. Soon thereafter, the pace picked up. The summer before sophomore year, Davis decided to run the New York City Marathon, and, after training throughout the fall, he finished last year’s race in 4:23:10. Days later...
...original version of this article incorrectly included former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz as one of the number of Bush administration IGs who "have been forced to resign under a cloud as a result of bipartisan pressure, often because of bald incompetence or gross interference with the IG mission." While at least one Democrat and one Republican senator were raising questions about Schmitz's job performance at the time of his resignation in September of 2005, Schmitz had in fact conveyed to the Secretary of Defense his decision to step down a year before. Moreover in October...