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...true that the temptation to use food as a political symbol is bred in the bone. William Henry Harrison won the presidency by calling himself "the candidate of the log cabin and hard cider." Franklin D. Roosevelt served hot dogs to the King and Queen of England...
...envision a leadership role for themselves take their snowmobiles out onto the thin ice and fall through and drown in the cold water--their last thought in this life: "Boy, was this dumb or what?"--and so far I have not been one of them. Caution was bred into me: I never played with guns or made a hobby of pharmaceuticals or flung myself off a cliff while clinging to a kite. I read books instead. I read books in which men hearken to wild imperatives, and that is enough...
...promising is that this particular gene is very similar in mice and in humans. But something as complex as violent behavior in human beings obviously can't be traced to a single gene." The scientists from the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences and Massachusetts General Hospital bred the mice to eliminate a working copy of a gene needed to make an enzyme called nitric oxide. The researchers say that nitric oxide may act as a brake on behavior...
...make the mouse's third ear, scientists fashioned a precision mold out of porous, biodegradable polymer, seeded it with human cartilage cells, then tucked the structure under the skin of a mouse bred without an immune system (to prevent rejection). Nourished by mouse blood, the cartilage cells multiplied, taking the shape of the dissolving polymer scaffold and creating a perfectly formed human...
...India retreating into its old xenophobia? In this century British rule bred proud anticolonial traditions that combined with go-it-alone socialist policies to turn India into a black hole for foreign investors. Just four years ago, however, the government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao began to scrap decades-old barriers to foreign capital, including restrictions on ownership and the repatriation of profits. Suddenly financial gurus touted India as the next hot spot for investment. Also reformed have been laws that made it impossible for foreigners to own a majority of an Indian company and forced them...