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As open-and-shut cases go, Alzheimer’s disease should top
the list. The victim is clear. Suspects are in custody. Wherever neurons die
due to Alzheimer’s disease, a protein known as amyloid-beta is always found at
the scene of the crime, hanging around in large, tough gangs called plaques.
Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (which
goes by its initials ALS or the alias Lou Gehrig’s disease); and prion
diseases, such as scrapie in sheep, mad cow disease in
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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire Los Angeles police said a DNA match has prompted them to conclude that a 72-year-old man may be connected to around 30 killings in and around the city, some dating back decades.
Police arrested John Floyd Thomas, an insurance claims adjustor, in March after learning his DNA matched samples from five rapes and slayings of elderly women. But they are also investigating him in connection with roughly 25 other Southern California killings and will likely expand the
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No. 1004 September 20, 1941 #420. FROM: Tokyo (Toyoda) TO: Vichy
(Secret outside the department.)
(Part 1 of 2.)
Re my #418[a].
I am sending the following information for your
reference. 1. Condition of Quartering Troops.
(a) Saigon and its vicinity. Despite the negotiations
carried on locally, they refuse absolutely to allow the Japanese to use some of
the barracks and houses belonging to French Indo-China, merely permitting the
use of-----of Annamites, and they are |
No. 940 September 4, 1941 #561. FROM: Rome TO: Tokyo
On the 3rd, incidental to his offering CIANO
congratulations for his recovery from illness, I had ANDO[a] confer with
ANFUUZO[b]. ANDO asked him what impression he had received of the Eastern Front
at the time of the recent meeting of MUSSOLINI and HITLER. His reply was this:
"I was on the Ukraine front for only three days. The war on that front is
progressing very well. Both the German and the Italian Armies were in |
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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. A combination of vitamin B-6, vitamin B-12 and folic acid might
protect women against age-related macular degeneration, the leading
cause of blindness in the elderly, a new study finds.
Women taking this trio of vitamins in amounts well beyond the
recommended daily doses were one-third less likely to develop macular
degeneration than were people taking placebos, researchers report in
the Feb. 23 Archives of Internal Medicine.
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One of
our guiding principles here at CV has always been that disciplinary
barriers are meant to be leapt across. So, to mark the passing of an
influential writer of fiction, who better than an influential writer of
quantum field theory textbooks? We’re happy to have Michael Peskin contribute a guest post on the passing of John Updike.
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John Updike (1932-2009)
John Updike, one of the great American writers, died on Tuesday. The Cosmic Variance
bloggers might seem |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . Adam
Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester who
studies star formation and stellar death using supercomputers. His new
book, “The Constant Fire, Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate,”
has just been published. He will be joining Reality Base to post an
ongoing discussion of science and religion—you can read his previous
posts here, and find more of his thoughts on science and the human prospect at the Constant Fire
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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . Cornelia Wallace, a former first lady of Alabama who threw herself over her husband, Gov. George C. Wallace, when he was shot in a 1972 assassination attempt, died on Thursday in Sebring, Fla. She was 69.
The cause was cancer, her cousin Melissa Boyen said.
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Cornelia Ellis Snively, a dark-haired beauty known as C’nelia,
married George Wallace on Jan. 4, 1971, just days before he began his
second term as governor. |
No. 360
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
FROM: Tokyo
TO: Moscow
7 May 1941
# 954.
In view of the
attitude of the United States, it is urgent to adjust our relations with
U.S.S.R. We are doing everything we can at this end toward that goal. We trust
you will do likewise at your end.http://Louissheehan.BraveDiary.com
Trans. 5-9-41
No. 361
FROM: Tokyo
TO: Berlin
7 May 1941
No number.
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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Whether you are in Australia, America, or Argentina, if you have the
flu, your case most likely came from the same place. A study published
in Science [subscription
required] in April mapped the virus’s spread across the globe and found
that every epidemic of the major strain of Influenza A since 2002 could
be traced back to eastern and Southeast Asia. http://sheehan.myblogsite.com
“For probably 60 years, the path that viruses use to migrate around
the |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Sometimes, survival of the fittest means dependence on weak links.
Widely distributed fruit fly species have a temperature-sensitive
step in the manufacture of a key part in their biological clocks. http://louis8j8sheehan8esquire.wordpress.com The
heat-sensitive stumbling block may be the reason Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans have been able to spread to temperate zones while their cousins haven’t, a new study in the Dec. 26 Neuron suggests. |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. A specific patch of tissue on the right side of the brain's visual cortex takes charge of recognizing human bodies and body parts, contends a team of researchers led by psychologist Paul E. Downing of the University of Wales in Bangor. This body-processing hub lies near one region already linked to face recognition and not far from another that specializes in telling one place from another, the scientists say. The researchers made their find by studying 19 |
HE WAS found
dead, hanging by his belt in Palermo’s Pagliarelli jail. The apparent
suicide of a 52-year-old Sicilian, Gaetano Lo Presti, on December 16th
put a grisly end to what investigators claimed was a drive by the
Sicilian Mafia to give itself a new leadership. Mr Lo Presti was among
89 alleged mobsters detained in one of the biggest-ever police
operations in Sicily. Around 1,200 semi-militarised Carabinieri were
deployed in raids there and (as an indication of Cosa Nostra’s long |
http://louis1j1sheehan1esquire.wordpress.com. People don’t have a monopoly on the ability to recognize themselves
in mirrors. Great apes, bottlenose dolphins, and Asian elephants have
also passed the mirror test, showing a capacity for self-recognition
that is believed to be a sign of a rudimentary sense of self.http://louis1j1sheehan1esquire.wordpress.com In
August, in a paper in PLoS Biology,
scientists described the first nonmammalian species that can claim
membership in this exclusive |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . While airborne dust is known to be an abundant component in the formation of rain and snow, a study [pdf] in February found that bacteria lofted into the atmosphere might also be a big part of the rainmaking mix.
For more than 20 years, scientists have tossed around the idea that
bacteria play a role in precipitation. The speculation began because of
the curious case of the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae, a plant pathogen that promotes frost damage on crops. |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . The ingredient that provides the sting in pepper sprays used for
self-defense is capsaicin, the same chemical that lends jalapeños,
habaneros, and other chili peppers their heat. But some chilies are a
lot hotter than others, and some are mild. What makes certain ones so
intense? A new study [pdf] suggests that hot peppers crank up the capsaicin content for self-defense too. http://louis4j4sheehan4esquire.wordpress.com
Joshua Tewksbury,
a biologist at the |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. U.S. agriculture has developed a heavy reliance on chemicals to
safeguard crops from yield-robbing weeds. However, many of those
herbicides can pose substantial health risks to people, pets, and
wildlife, which is why laws prescribe how some of these chemicals are
handled in fields. A study now finds that trace quantities of such
agricultural chemicals nonetheless find their way into consumers'
homes—not on the fruits and vegetables they buy but |
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