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Thus far, Anderson's laboratory has endured the slog of using microarray techniques to identify genes with expression patterns linked to fear behavior, followed by in situ hybridization, which traditionally involves twenty-odd complex, error-prone steps, to find just some of the genes expressed in different parts of the amygdala.
Throughout this terse, entertaining parable (it won the grand prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival), the Belgian-born writer-directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne ( La Promesse , 1996) immerse you in the sensations of Rosetta's life: her daily, roundabout slog through the woods to reach the trailer park where she lives with her alcoholic mother (she's too ashamed to go through the front entrance); her frustrating treks to find employment, however menial; and, most of all, her countless rages at a society that refuses to grant her a "normal" (her word) existence.
Diversion from the eight-hour slog, gladly noted by all the papers, was senator Tom Harkin's late-afternoon objection to the House's repeated references to the senators as "jurors."
But most say the interesting sociological history and insight into attitudes about women in medicine make it worth the slog.
It is a long, brutal slog up dangerous gable-steep glaciers in which at least 50 previous aspirants are buried.