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...Like the Amish in Witness, these Socialists in Gallagher's extended family experience life more fully because they believe so deeply. Devoted readers of the Daily Worker, Stalinists to the end ("the pact with Hitler was a tactic, darling"), they sometimes look ridiculous but steadily buoy Gallagher with a bracing sense of connectedness. As a girl, she thought a portrait of Lenin hanging on the wall was a picture of her grandfather. Her summers at "worker's camp," where the oppressed were celebrated, provide wonderful memories, although political purity was strictly enforced: an extra slice of watermelon to a black...
...Amish man jailed for not putting an orange warning sticker on his buggy was allowed...
...rule, not the exception, even when diagnosis is more certain. In order to trace inheritance patterns neuroscientists focus on a genetic isolate population whose members suffer from a disorder with unusually high frequency. My lab's investigation of BPAD used a genetic isolate from the Old Order Amish in Lancaster County, Penn. Not only were we able to find several families with expression rates of BPAD as high as 20 percent, but the sociological profile of our population has also helped the integrity of the study. The Amish keep flawless family trees that make drawing up pedigrees much easier...
Never mind computers, there weren't many telephones in Sandor Hau's hometown when he was a boy. Hau grew up in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, home to the austere Amish farming community. "Mine isn't a classic Silicon Valley pedigree," jokes Hau, 28, who speaks Korean, English, Japanese and the archaic Amish-German dialect. "I think my family were the only Koreans in the county...
...only made bread a few times before so he decides on a simple recipe: old order Amish bread. But amidst the mixing of the beginning ingredients, he gets overly-excited and runs to the Wall of Spices. And then to the cabinet of oil. "Taste, taste!" he sings as the old order Amish start getting fatty and spicy. He scoops the basic ingredients from industrial-sized garbage bins of flour and sugar. A bowl of yeast and water sits still underneath him. "Bubble, bubble..." he croons. "If it doesn't bubble, that means I killed it," he explains. When...