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...engineered is the word. The 39 Clues is, like some lab-grown genetically engineered life-form, a series without a real author. J.K. Rowling conceived Harry Potter on a crowded, four-hour-delayed train trip between Manchester and London. The 39 Clues was born about three years ago in a corporate boardroom. Levithan runs a weekly "idea group" at Scholastic - "basically, about a dozen editors get together every week, and we just brainstorm ideas," he explains. Amy and Dan were one of those brainstorms. (Originally the series was called The 79 Clues before Levithan and co. decided to scale...
...decline relatively early - around age 24, six years or so before women's. Historically, infertility has been seen as a female issue, as has the increased risk of Down syndrome and other birth defects, but studies now also link higher rates of autism, schizophrenia and Down syndrome in children born to older fathers. A recent paper by researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institute found that the risk of bipolar disorder in children increased with paternal age, particularly in children born to men age 55 or older...
...some degree, that bias is rooted in biology. Women are born with as many eggs as they'll ever have - about a million. That number steadily diminishes, and "the best eggs are ovulated first," Behr says. The ones that remain - after age 35 or so, on average - are vulnerable to toxins, radiation and other insults that may degrade their quality and viability...
...Swedish study, published Sept. 1 in the Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers found that the risk of developing bipolar disorder began to increase in children born to fathers around age 40. The highest risk, however, occurred in men age 55 and older; their offspring were 37% more likely to develop the disorder than children born to men in their 20s. Children of older men were also twice as likely to develop early-onset disease - before age 20 - which studies suggest has a strong genetic component...
...idealized memory of a more egalitarian economy seems to guide Jutta, 50, another regular at Zur Firma. Asked what she tells her daughter, now 22, about the former country in which she was born, Jutta answers: "I talk about social behavior. I tell her that people were there for each other without expecting something in return." Most of the GDR's approximately 200,000 former political prisoners are unlikely to agree...