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...Rouse was alarmed. Spread out before the Queensland detective one morning in June was a large-scale map of the Sunshine Coast featuring a tight cluster of black marks. They were grouped around an address well known to the pedophile-hunting policeman: the place where a 13-year-old boy had gone missing seven months earlier. Each mark represented the home of a previously unknown suspected pedophile, traced from the data banks of a child pornography company run by the Russian mafia in eastern Europe. "We thought we knew where all the sex offenders were in that area," says Rouse...
...never in a Petri dish, but at one stage I was that little cluster of cells myself, as were you, as was the doctor, as is everybody. Tell me anybody who wasn't that at some point in their development, and I'll give you a cigar...
...edition suffered from a junky interior; the new version feels classier, with such options as an aluminum-ribbed dashboard, chrome-ringed air vents and red-and-charcoal leather seats. One funky touch: you can backlight the instrument cluster in one of more than 125 colors...
...matter how the two factors balance out, scientists may eventually find that trying to identify the definitive cluster of genes that serves as our spiritual circuit board is simply impossible--like trying to draw a genetic schematic of love. Still, they're likely to keep trying. "I am personally convinced that there is a scheme of things," says Davies of Macquarie University, "that the universe is not just any ragbag of laws." In the end, genes may prove to be a part of that scheme--but clearly one of very many. --With reporting by Jeff Chu/ London, Broward Liston/ Orlando...
...They cluster together like 12-year old boys at a middle school dance, making small talk because they know each other and because there’s not much else to do while staring at what they’re actually there to see—the boys in the red caps...