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...broken, surely the next step is to fix it. "If the abnormality is in a discrete part of the brain that uses a specific neurotransmitter, we could develop a drug treatment," suggests Dr. Snyder. It might even be possible to devise exercises to fortify wayward judgment, just as a stroke patient can benefit from occupational therapy. Another possibility: a prenatal test -- abort the psychopath...
...here, on the steppes of Central Asia, that Chevron has staked much of its future and doubled its potential worldwide oil reserves by the stroke of a pen on a contract. Over the next 40 years, the company and the Kazakh government plan to invest $20 billion to develop the vast Tengiz field near the Caspian Sea, which contains some of the richest sources of oil and gas on earth. So deep are the deposits that geologists have yet to find the bottom. The oil-saturated rock formations are "two or three times the thickness of anywhere else...
...always come down to blindness," he says. "'Which match are you watching? Did the dust get in your eyes, Sultan?"' Actually, notes Gangji, his eyesight is better than good. He says he can pick out the number on the ball as it comes across the net on a ground stroke...
...Head of the Charles this year, she was there all day and spoke with every single Radcliffe crew, even the novices," says Laura Marx '94, hajek's coxswain. "She made the point that she was not the stroke of the varisity, but the captain of the whole team...
...himself quickly into the life of the court by taking sides in one of the wars of strong personalities that have occasionally riven it. In their 1979 Supreme Court tell-all, The Brethren, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong wrote that when William O. Douglas, who had recently had a stroke, was asked how he could decide cases when he couldn't read, Douglas replied, "I'll see how the votes and vote the other way." Today, though Antonin Scalia takes sarcastic digs at his colleagues in his opinions, the personal rancor is missing. Sheldon Goldman, a political-science professor...