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  1. Astronomy

    Case of the misshapen disk

    A deformed disk around a young star may have gotten its swept-back appearance as the result of a collision with a dense gas cloud.

    By Ron Cowen

  2. 9/11 attacks stoked U.S. heart ailments

    People who experienced serious stress reactions shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks also displayed markedly elevated rates of new heart and blood vessel ailments over the next 3 years.

    By Bruce Bower

  3. 19919

    We must dissociate the attacks themselves from the intense media barrage that followed. Under the guise of providing information, the press seemed intent on inflaming our most negative feelings of fear, hatred, and grief. While the attacks were no doubt emotionally distressing, the psychological trauma was amplified a thousandfold by the nonstop and repetitive coverage.