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Inside Edge Publisher Aaron Shapiro '94 says misogyny charges arise because students here tend toward a kind of ideological trigger-happiness. "People look at the cover and they say, 'gee, a magazine for men, it must be bad--and then they don't actually read...
...almost a century, medical researchers have tried to figure out why colon cancer seems to run in certain families. Did their misfortune result from blind chance, a shared exposure to some cancer-causing trigger in the environment or their diet? Or could they have inherited a rogue gene that made them more susceptible to malignancy? Now a team led by scientists from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Helsinki believe that they have found the answer. "What has heretofore been called familial colon cancer can now be called heritable colon cancer," says Dr. Bert Vogelstein, professor of oncology...
Suddenly, sniper bullets spit into the dirt along the top of the trench. Down below the ridge, plum orchards in spring bloom conceal the Muslim lines. Exploding artillery shells trigger small avalanches along the rain-loosened earth walls. A young Serb slides into the trench, out of breath from his dash across a meadow of buttercups pocked by mortar craters. He has a question to ask that is important enough to risk his life. "Why does the world want to destroy us?" he wants to know. "We are victims...
...week progressed the FBI had to back off certain claims: that they had fresh evidence of child abuse, that they had actually seen a cult member lighting the fire, that some victims were shot by fellow Davidians for trying to flee. "The Justice Department is pressing emotional trigger buttons," charged Zimmerman, who had worked side by side with DeGuerin trying to end the standoff. "It's a public opinion-generated effort...
...study of 458 sixth-graders, controlled for some social factors, found that students who were more physically mature chose to go to bed later than those just entering puberty. The same students also slept later on weekends than their prepubescent peers. The conclusion: puberty's biological changes may trigger an adjustment in kids' internal clocks, keeping them alert till the wee hours. Next hypothesis: it's hormones that make teens gab endlessly on the phone...