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Gene combinations containing two forms of genes that offer partial protection against malaria were found to be statistically common in African populations but absent in populations outside the continent...
...Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 said he thought the scrutiny of grading practices might have driven down grades even absent specific policy changes...
Soon after the World Trade Centers collapsed, the streets of downtown Manhattan were plastered with signs seeking missing people—pictures, names and descriptions of those not yet accounted for, posted by family and friends. But another group was absent even from the ranks of the missing: the undocumented immigrants working in the towers. Some of these workers have since been identified as missing; others remain nameless...
...like Jordan, Li is discovering that knee ligaments and marketing formulas don't last forever. Li is uncharacteristically absent from his company's latest mainland advertising campaign, a $2.4 million TV blitz that coincides with World Cup broadcasts. The ads, featuring no-name characters wearing Li Ning Sports gear, are part of a corporate image overhaul to get younger, more affluent Chinese to wear the brand. Li, now 39, isn't recognizable to a hipper generation that follows NBA basketball and the English Premier League on TV. Fans "used to come by the thousands when I opened outlets," Li says...
...possessing illegal rifles, handguns, grenades and explosives. Such was the reputation of Tommy, 40, the youngest son of former Indonesian President Suharto, that observers in the packed, tropical courtroom thought the malingering might actually set him free. They were wrong, as they discovered when the court declared the absent Tommy guilty on all four charges and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. "From a legal point of view, this is good ," says Todung Mulya Lubis, a prominent Jakarta attorney. "No one ever imagined in the past that someone like Tommy Suharto could be convicted...