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That may yet turn out to be the case with the neurons found by the Princeton lab. The mechanism Gould and her colleagues uncovered in macaque monkeys could be nothing more than a useless evolutionary leftover, a kind of neurological appendix. But if, as many suspect, the new neurons turn out to be actively involved with inscribing memories, the old paradigm is in for at least a minor tune-up--and maybe a complete overhaul...
...This promises to be a close race. Negative campaigning works - and may come to seem the only effective way to try to win the undecided voters, the McCain types who will be decisive. Both candidates know how to play rough, and both of them, I suspect, are persuaded that you cannot win without ruthlessness. The Marquis of Queensberry is for losers. George W. Bush imitates his father in almost all things; in 1988 Bush the elder hit Michael Dukakis with a number of rabbit punches - the Willie Horton business, for example...
...Both candidates this year are highly vulnerable to attack. The temptation to firebomb in those areas of vulnerability will, I suspect, be too great to resist. What areas? In the case of George W. Bush: abortion, capital punishment, gun control - all fairly passionate and motivating issues - and on top of those, what might be called the Doofus Dismissal: the persistent rap that he is not smart enough to be president. The first three questions will invite increasingly vicious us-versus-them rhetoric; the last will eat away at Bush by insinuation and late-night comedy...
...Harvard Medical School researchers receive letters containing razor blades from an animal rights activist group, condemning their non-human, primate-based research. Police suspect a group known as "Justice Department...
...arrest a man long sought as a suspect in the murder. The Sept. 9, 1976 murder was the result of a botched drug deal...