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More than 100,000 Americans, including such celebrities as Oprah and Spike Lee, have sought to do the same by taking genealogical DNA tests now offered by commercial labs. Starting at $95 and using a sample of cells swabbed from inside the cheek, the tests can answer questions ranging from whether you have Native American or African ancestry to whether you are related to someone with the same last name. One of the newest services, launched by the National Geographic Society in April, provides a glimpse of your ancestors' migratory history and helps fund a five-year research project aimed...
...they asked any Israeli women to identify themselves. Thinking she too would be released, Tamar Artzi, 24, rose from her seat. One of the hijackers aimed his pistol at her head and pulled the trigger. At the last second Artzi turned her head; miraculously, the bullet only grazed her cheek. Thinking her dead or mortally wounded, the gunmen threw her out of the plane onto the tarmac...
...undersigned) were briefly moved by a three-minute close-up of Pacino fiercely nursing his son (Sid Owen) through some primitive Indian foot surgery. But then Kinski would launch into a furniture-smashing mad scene, or Donald Sutherland would drop by, a tuft of hair sprouting from his right cheek, and the toga-party roistering would recommence. If this reception is duplicated elsewhere. Revolution could achieve a dubious immortality as the campfire classic of 1986. --By Richard Corliss
...above his hiccuping diaphragm. A cloth shield protects his eyes. His diet, called "hyperalimentation," runs through an intravenous catheter to his umbilical artery. A nurse, who cares for two such children, checks his vital signs every two hours. On a piece of tape holding an endotracheal tube to his cheek, one of the nurses has written...
...birth of the universe, only a single, all-powerful force existed, and that not until a fraction of a second afterward did this force split into four. Like knights in pursuit of a visionary grail, scientists for decades have sought what they call--with a bit of tongue in cheek--a Theory of Everything (TOE), a single mathematical model that would describe the fundamental unity of the forces. So far, however, they have met with only some partial successes and many failures...