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...traveled through these landscapes and lived through these changes, I just found it endlessly interesting." One thing that was endlessly frustrating to Mundy, though, was Michelle Obama's lack of participation. Mundy had interviewed the future First Lady in 2007 for the Washington Post, but by the time the author was writing her book in 2008, the wife of the then candidate had become "controversial and somewhat polarizing," Mundy says. Mrs. Obama's campaign staff "had just become much more careful about her, and made the decision not to cooperate." (See pictures of Michelle Obama's fashion looks...
...There were a lot of shenanigans that went on in the synthetic space," says Janet Tavakoli, who is an expert in structure finance and author of the recent book Dear Mr. Buffett. "These bonds were created by financial meth labs. Now the government is going to have to figure out how to take...
...anyway, say the London atheists, it's actually the Christian adverts that may be offensive to some. While the Humanist Association defends the right of Christians to air their views, many of its members object to the Christians' choice of words. Richard Dawkins, the eminent Oxford biologist and author of the best-selling book The God Delusion, takes issue with a slogan that calls nonbelievers fools. "That's a particularly obnoxious quote from one of the Psalms," he says. "Ours was extremely gentle and respectful by comparison." The use of the word probably in the atheist slogan, he says, does...
...thank for their popularity than just great hair. A group of researchers from Harvard and the University of California, San Diego have suggested that social network structures have a genetic basis—meaning that popularity may be coded in one’s DNA. According to co-author and Harvard Professor of Medical Sociology Nicholas A. Christakis, the findings expand on the common intuition that genes influence social behavior, accounting for the variability in an individual’s popularity. “The interesting point is not that the number of friends varies from person to person...
...don’t want the cured meat and sausage industry on our tails.” Researchers need to conduct long-term cohort studies or animal studies in order to gather further information, said Chen-yu Liu, a research fellow at HSPH and the primary author of the manuscript. “Leukemia is the most important childhood cancer,” said Liu. “I’m concerned about the children, and what factors are associated with the disease.” According to Christiani, the study’s original focus was not related...