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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Thirty years after
Soviet tanks rumbled through Afghanistan, many of them are still strewn
— wrecked and rusted — along the country's mountainsides, a reminder of
a war the Russians withdrew from in humiliation. The year was
1979. Communists had taken over the central government in Afghanistan
and were aggressively modernizing the country — and taking land and
killing landowners. Meanwhile, at the Kremlin, Leonid Brezhnev,
the head of the Communist Party, was |
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FROM: Tokyo
TO: Moscow
March 18, 1941
# 40.
(Part 2 of 6).
Article 2.
The total
amount of the value of products of the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics to
be exported to Japan in pursuance of the first paragraph of treaty 1 shall be
equal to the total amount of the value of the products of Japan to be exported
to the Soviet Union in pursuance of the second paragraph of that treaty.
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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . What you want, when you hold a pendant fashioned 35,000 years
ago by a Neanderthal—a fox's tooth with a tiny hole for a leather
string—what you want is something only the movies can give. A close-up,
in the lab's neon light, on the mottled canine between your fingers,
the focus so tight you can see the scratches made by the stone tool.
The picture fades, and next you see the same tooth in different hands,
stronger ones with beefy fingers: the hands of the
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People convicted of drunk driving may often need help not only for their alcohol problems but for illicit-drug abuse and other psychiatric disorders as well, a new study suggests. http://sheehan.myblogsite.com
Psychiatrist Sandra C. Latham of the Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest in Albuquerque and her coworkers interviewed 612 women and 493 men, ages 23 to 54, about 5 years after their drunk-driving convictions. About 90 percent of the participants reported having abused alcohol at |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . AN EMERGING
nation looks increasingly confident as a player on the world stage,
thanks to a mixture of commercial prowess and deft diplomacy. In its
capital and in coastal cities, you can feel the excitement as small
manufacturers, retailers and middlemen find new partners across the
sea. But the country’s masters face a dilemma: the very technology,
communications and knowhow that are boosting national fortunes also
threaten to undermine the old power |
Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko, a Soviet defector, died on August 23rd, aged 80
THERE
were many reasons why Yuri Nosenko found himself, in June 1962, sitting
in an overstuffed armchair in a fussily furnished CIA flat in Geneva,
with a glass of American whiskey in one hand and an American cigarette
in the other, offering to sell “two pieces of information”. He
suggested several of them himself. A prostitute had robbed him of his
$250 spending allowance as a member of the Soviet disarmament
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The platypus has always been considered odd. Not only does it have
webbed feet, a tail like a beaver’s, a coat of fur, and a large bill,
but it also lays eggs and nurses its offspring through a set of glands
on its abdomen. Biologists classify the platypus as a monotreme, an
egg-laying mammal with a single opening for reproduction and excretion.
But is it truly a mammal? http://louis0j0sheehan0esquire.wordpress.com
A draft of the genetic sequence of Glennie
[subscription required], a |
A team of engineers at MIT has harnessed viruses to make components
for a remarkable new kind of battery, half the size of a human cell and
far more efficient than your usual AAA.
The researchers used a threadlike virus that had been genetically
engineered so that electrically conductive materials, such as cobalt
oxide, would bind to its surface. http://louis0j0sheehan0esquire.wordpress.com Because the long, thin virus has so
much surface area relative to its volume, it can pack a lot of |
Major forest fires in the western United States have become more
frequent and destructive over the past 2 decades. The trend has
occurred in step with rising average temperatures in the region. http://louiskjksheehan.blogspot.com
"Climate
change in the West is a reality," says Thomas Swetnam of the University
of Arizona in Tucson. "Now, we're starting to see the effects." Earlier
spring snowmelts, which kick off longer fire seasons, account for the
trend, he says. The melt's timing |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . At dozens of beaches around the world, huge female sea turtles come
back each year at about the same time. They slowly haul themselves out
of the water near the places they themselves hatched, dig shallow holes
in the sand, and lay clutches of eggs. The predictability of the
turtles' return has made capture of the endangered reptiles and their
eggs a reliable bonanza for poachers. http://louis6j6sheehan.blogspot.com
Prized for their taste,
putative |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . It took less than a century after John Deere unveiled his
steel-bladed plow in 1837 for the North American prairie to all but
disappear. For 20 million years, a nearly 1,000-mile-wide swath of
unbroken grassland belted the continent's midsection from northern
Canada to Mexico. Now, only about 5 percent is left, mainly as mixed
and shortgrass prairie in the Plains states. To the east, less than 1
percent of the original lush tallgrass remains, most of it |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . At some time or another, most children in the United States
experience corporal punishment, such as spanking, without suffering
harmful effects on their behavior or mental health. However, studies
conducted over the past 62 years indicate that the more often and the
more harshly parents resort to physical reprimands, the more likely
their kids are to become aggressive, delinquent, and depressed,
contends psychologist Elizabeth T. Gershoff of Columbia |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. When the brain snaps to attention, individual neurons don't
necessarily work harder, but clusters of them form cooperative units, a
new study suggests. http://louis-j-sheehan-esquire.blog.friendster.com/
This unifying brain process, in which nerve
cells briefly align the peaks and valleys of their electrical
outbursts, may underlie an animal's shifting of attention to a
particular sight, sound, or other sensation, according to a team of
neuroscientists led |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Eight years ago, when Erik Ramsey was 16, a car accident triggered a
brain stem stroke that left him paralyzed. Though fully conscious,
Ramsey was completely paralyzed, essentially “locked in,” unable to
move or talk. He could communicate only by moving his eyes up or down,
thereby answering questions with a yes or a no. http://louis9j9sheehan.blog.com
Ramsey’s doctors recommended sending him to a nursing facility.
Instead his parents brought him |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. It’s nuclear physics 101: Radioactivity proceeds at its own pace.
Each type of radioactive isotope, be it plutonium-238 or carbon-14,
changes into another isotope or element at a specific, universal,
immutable rate. This much has been known for more than a century, since
Ernest Rutherford defined the notion of half-life—the time it takes for
half of the atoms in a radioactive sample to transmute into something
else. So when researchers suggested in August |
Daily doses of vitamins B-6, B-12 and folate (B-9) don’t raise or
lower a woman’s risk of getting cancer, researchers report in the Nov.
5 Journal of the American Medical Association.
The large trial may put to rest suggestions raised by smaller
studies that these vitamins might deter certain cancers or, as one
study suggested, increase them. http://louis9j9sheehan.blog.com
All three vitamins play key roles in DNA synthesis. Ten years ago,
the United States began to fortify many foods |
Question: What Do the Latin Tenses Mean? http://ljsheehan.livejournal.com/
A reader trying to teach himself Latin asked:
What I am trying to find are the meanings for all the other tenses
[beyond the Present]. I am new at this and I am tying to make it a
little easier for me to understand.
He had designed a chart for the paradigms and was trying to insert
English translations for all the forms. This might be a good exercise
for other Latin students. In my explanation below I |
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Commentary No. 243, Oct. 15, 2008
"The Depression: A Long-Term View"
The depression has started. Journalists are still coyly enquiring of economists whether or not we may be entering a mere recession. Don't believe it for a minute. We are already at the beginning of a full-blown worldwide depression with extensive unemployment almost everywhere. It may take the form of a classic nominal deflation, with all its negative consequences for ordinary people. Or it might take the form, a bit less
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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . There's more than one way for people living at extremely high
altitudes to adapt to so-called thin air. Biologically, there must be
at least three ways, according to a report in an upcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://louisbjbsheehan.blogspot.com
A
team led by Cynthia M. Beall of Case Western Reserve University in
Cleveland obtained blood samples and medical data from 236 Ethiopian
villagers living more than 2 miles |
A combination of peer pressure, gender stereotyping and low
expectations contributes to turning potentially gifted kids — especially girls
— away from mathematics, wasting a precious national resource, a new study
suggests.
The study, by cancer biochemist Janet Mertz of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and her collaborators, appears in the November Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
Mertz’s team tallied the participants in top international
competitions for |
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