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August 23, 1997
Navy Recruits Report Abusive Legacy
Sources:In a large and unprecedented survey, male and female Navy recruits report disturbingly high rates of childhood physical and sexual abuse.
John Briere
Department of Psychiatry
University of Southern California
School of Medicine
1934 Hospital Place
Los Angeles, CA 90033
Steven R. Gold
Department of Psychology
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115-2892
Mary P. Koss
University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
Family and Community Medicine
Tucson, AZ 85719
Jacquelyn W. White
Department of Psychology
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27412
Invasive Argentine ant is no picnic
Sources:An invading species of ant causes dramatic changes in the diet of the horned lizard and other parts of the food chain.
Andrew Suarez
Department of Biology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0938
Reservoir of water hides high above Earth
Sources:Earth's upper atmosphere holds a surprising amount of water.
Robert R. Conway
Mail Code 7641
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, DC 20375
Ancient human saunters into limelight
Sources:Fossilized footprints on the shore of a South African lagoon were left about 117,000 years ago by an anatomically modern human.
Lee R. Berger
Palaeo-Anthropology Research Group
Department of Anatomical Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand
7 York Road
Parktown
Johannesburg 2193
South Africa
Dave Roberts
Council for Geoscience
P.O. Box 572
Bellville 7535
South Africa
Extra calcium no help for lactating women
Sources:Consuming additional calcium does little to reverse bone density loss in women who are breast-feeding their babies.
Heidi J. Kalkwarf
Department of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital Medical Center
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
231 Bethesda Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0541
Ann Prentice
Medical Research Council
Dunn Nutrition Unit
Cambridge CB4 1XJ
United Kingdom
Brain doubles up on marijuanalike agents
Sources:Investigators have discovered a second naturally occurring brain chemical that resembles the active ingredient of marijuana.
Raphael Mechoulam
Department of Natural Products
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mount Scopus
Jerusalem 91905
Israel
Daniele Piomelli
Neurosciences Institute
10640 J.J. Hopkins Drive
San Diego, CA 92121
Polymer, buckyballs combat nerve damage
Sources:Two materials, usually studied for their industrial applications, may offer treatments for nerve damage caused by injury, stroke, or disease.
Laura L. Dugan
Department of Neurology
Center for the Study of Nervous System Injury
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO 63110
Venkatram R. Shastri
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
Cool cars: Running clean on liquid nitrogen
Sources:Two prototypes demonstrate the possibility of using liquid nitrogen to power a zero-pollution vehicle.
Carl Knowlen
Aerospace and Energetics Research Program
University of Washington, FL-10
Box 352250
Seattle, WA 98195
Carlos Ordonez
Department of Physics
P.O. Box 305370
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203-5370
E-mail: cao@unt.edu
Research Notes:
Behavior
Working moms: Stressed to excess
Sources:Single and married working mothers in midlevel jobs endure a particularly large amount of mental strain that boosts levels of a stress hormone and may put them at risk of developing heart disease.
Linda J. Luecken
Department of Behavioral Medicine
Duke University
2212-F Elder Street
Durham, NC 27702
Therapy bonds and the bottle
Sources:A national study of alcoholism treatments indicates that the relationship between a client and therapist influences the success of techniques aimed at lessening alcohol use.
Gerard J. Conners
Research Institute on Addictions
1021 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
Earth Science
Why some ocean volcanoes grow tall
Sources:A survey of undersea volcanoes suggests that the biggest mountains form on the oldest ocean floor.
Paul Wessel
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii
1000 Pope Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Robot completes desert voyage
A four-wheel, remotely controlled rover travels 215 kilometers across the Chilean desert.
Damming Gibraltar to avert an ice age
Sources:A physicist makes the controversial argument that an ice age may strike unless humans construct a dam across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Robert G. Johnson
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences
University of Minnesota
108 Pillsbury Hall
310 Pillsbury Drive, S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0219
Biology
Dolly, Polly, Gene -- send in the clones
In two firsts, researchers have cloned a bull from fetal cells and a lamb that incorporates a human gene.
Putting a happy smile on your face
Sources:Interactions between two chemical signals determine where in the mouth teeth will form.
Annette Neubuser
Department of Anatomy
Program in Developmental Biology
School of Medicine
University of California
San Francisco, CA 94143-0452
The mutant gene that wasn't
Sources:A gene accused of causing breast cancer has been cleared of the crime.
Andrew P. Feinberg
Departments of Medicine, Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Oncology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD 21205
Maxwell P. Lee
Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD 21205
Robert A. Weinberg
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
9 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
Lowering the defenses of bacteria
Sources:Investigators have found a way to interfere with the mechanisms that bacteria use to resist antibiotics.
Sidney Altman
Department of Biology
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520
Enzyme reduction explains lazy flies
Sources:A subtle difference in enzyme production governs feeding behavior in insects.
Ralph J. Greenspan
Department of Biology and Center for Neural Science
1009 Main Building
New York University
New York, NY 10003
Marla Sokolowski
Department of Biology
York University
4700 Keele Street
North York
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
Canada
Articles:
A Fowl Fight
Sources:Fossil finds recharge debate about birds and dinosaurs
A long-standing argument about the evolution of birds heats up with new discoveries of ancient dinosaurs and birds.
Alan Feduccia
Department of Biology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Catherine A. Forster
Department of Anatomical Sciences
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2100
Larry D. Martin
Natural History Museum
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Fernando E. Novas
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia
Av. Angel Galardo 470
Buenos Aires (1405)
Argentina
Sources:Peer pressure in the bacterial world
Bacteria can coordinate their behavior, initiating activities that benefit the entire group.
Kendall M. Gray
Department of Biology
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Avenue
LIF 136
Tampa, FL 33620
E. Peter Greenberg
Department of Microbiology
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
J. Woodland Hastings
Harvard University
16 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Barbara H. Iglewski
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
600 Elmwood Avenue
Box 672
Rochester, NY 14642
Staffan Kjelleberg
School of Microbiology and Immunology
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052
Australia
Luciano Passador
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Box 672
Rochester, NY 14642
Leland S. Pierson III
Department of Plant Pathology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
David I. Pritchard
Department of Life Sciences
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
United Kingdom
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