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Spector and Samani say that understanding the components that determine telomere length may one day help researchers devise new treatments for age-related diseases, particularly heart disease (the study was partially funded by the British Heart Foundation). "I see in my practice 80-year-olds with healthy coronary arteries and 40-year-olds with heart disease. We may be on our way to explaining the genetic component in the explanation for why this is so, and so expanding our knowledge of the disease and how to treat it," Samani says. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...films in the U.S., Europe and India. Khan's specialty is adding a layer of unexpected depth and tenderness to an otherwise opaque character - the interrogator in Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire, a Pakistani police captain in A Mighty Heart, the remote immigrant father in The Namesake. Danny Boyle, the British director of Slumdog Millionaire, believes that as other Western studios try to replicate the film's success with movies set in India, Khan will be even more in demand - quintessentially Indian, and yet something else besides. "He is a touchstone connecting two worlds," Boyle says. More than Shah Rukh...
...thing happened, though, in those years that Khan toiled in television. The film industry caught up with him, and in the nick of time. Khan was ready to leave the profession when he was offered a part in The Warrior, a 2001 period piece filmed in India by a British-Indian director. It was the first time a director asked him to "do nothing," and he finally felt free. "That changed my life," he says. "I couldn't work in television after that...
...prominent British medical journal The Lancet retracted a widely cited 1998 research paper that suggested that vaccines could cause autism in children. The paper, authored by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, garnered significant attention for its assertion that the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might be unsafe. British vaccination rates subsequently tumbled, and measles cases increased. A number of studies have challenged Wakefield's claims, leading to a reassessment of the original paper that discovered problems with his methodology and conflicts of interest...
...Brig. James Cowan, the British commander of forces in Helmand, told his troops on Thursday, "We are in this together; we will fight it together, we will see it through together. Afghans with allies, soldiers with civilians, government with people...