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Shedding Our DNA Chains Kudos on your cover story on epigenetics [Jan. 18]. As the director of mind-body medicine for a cancer center that offers seminars on how patients can benefit from this emerging science, I can attest that most have never heard of epigenetics. Yet everything in our environment - the way we think and feel, our exposure to stress - affects the way our DNA is expressed. Once we understand this premise, we can incorporate strategies to effect epigenetic changes - including neurogenesis, the growth of new nerve tissue in the brain. Brenda Stockdale Atlanta...
...Obama's job is certainly lonely, as no doubt all Presidents have found [Jan. 25]. And yet the scale of destructive attacks on this man--from right, left and now center--is without precedent. By any standard, this man has achieved a remarkable record of legislation and world leadership in his first year in office. But how can he hope to continue unless we give him at least our grudging support...
This is entirely reasonable. Having met many of the internationals who are attempting to enter the Strip, I can say that some are thrill seekers who want to “go where the action is,” as one put it to me. The Mezan Center for Human Rights, the respected Palestinian non-governmental organization that I was scheduled to work with, expressed reservations about having me in Gaza for exactly this reason. Hardly anyone doubts that people who are going to Gaza because they saw bombs exploding there should be told that the Marines will not rush...
Steven H. Biel, Senior Lecturer on History and Literature, Executive Director of the Humanities Center...
Unlike many U.S. embassies in the Arab world that have been forced by security concerns to move from the center of capital cities to fortress-like suburban compounds, the Damascus embassy still occupies prime real estate - just a stone's throw from the residence of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Syria's much feared state-security apparatus keeps close tabs on everyone entering and leaving the embassy; it also helps keeps the embassy relatively safe from the occasional jihadist sneak attack. In turn, living close to the Americans may help Assad sleep more easily at night, say Damascene wags, because...