For the study, Miesenböck and Lima focused on a specific set of neural circuits, called the giant fiber (GF) system, involved in escape. (discovery.com)

I'm doubting it will happen," said Mataruse, her eyes fixed on the floor as her youngest daughter, 6-year-old Florence, sat unsmilingly beside her, wearing a white dress. (washingtonpost.com)

The family belonged to the old Indian Springs Club in Maryland, where Bobby and his older brother, Jimmy, played during the week and caddied on weekends. (washingtonpost.com)

In an episode certain to be scrutinized anew, Joseph Ratzinger was briefly and unenthusiastically a member of the Hitler Youth in his early teens, after membership became mandatory in 1941, according to a biography by John L. (nytimes.com)

According to firsthand accounts, he spent his final hours urging passengers to wear their lifebelts and to board the rescue boats. (discovery.com)

This is a difficult moment for the civil rights movement, which is understandably fearful of taking positions that would discomfit the teachers among its supporters. (nytimes.com)

This experience will never be dearer now that Massachusetts has come up with the misbegotten idea of introducing virtual horse racing - a bloodless, computer-generated cycling of nonentities aping thoroughbreds on a TV screen. (nytimes.com)

McBrien, a theologian at the University of Notre Dame, said Ratzinger's homily indicated that he believes the pope's role is to "protect the sheep from the prowling wolves of unorthodoxy and relativism. (washingtonpost.com)

With saliva, all a patient has to do is expectorate. (nytimes.com)

For "Private Ryan," Lines cut out some of the gorier moments from the movie's 24-minute depiction of the landing at Omaha Beach on D-Day. (washingtonpost.com)

All were dressed in their traditional red-trimmed black cassocks, their waists wrapped in scarlet sashes and their heads bobbing beneath scarlet skullcaps. (washingtonpost.com)

DeLay began building his megamachine with a breathtakingly hubristic "pay to play" system. (nytimes.com)

In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying. (nytimes.com)

On Tuesday he stayed ahead in the count, and for the first time in his career, Nomo confounded Yankees batters with his twisting pitching motion that takes a lengthy pause just before uncoiling and delivering. (washingtonpost.com)