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...concern is that [these tests] are being marketed to the public as if there is no question about it," says Merikangas, speaking generally about direct-to-consumer genomic tests that purport to offer people any truly predictive health advice. "Some people might understand that it is not a death sentence to them, but to others who are struggling, it could lead them not to have children or get married...
Unlike past student-led demonstrations against the Islamic establishment, Mousavi has the ability to press his case with the highest levels and could gain powerful allies. Some influential clerics have expressed concern about possible election irregularities and a fierce critic of Khamenei, former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, is part of the ruling establishment...
...read the essay with equal measures of interest and concern. There is no denying that there has been a disturbing rise of bigotry, thinly veiled as nationalism, in Australia in the past decade. But to suggest that this may represent the emergence of a new national ethos is going a bit far. We should remember that former Prime Minister John Howard's rightist vision of Australia was buried in 2007 in an electoral avalanche. Pauline Hanson and her gaggle of xenophobes are now nothing more than a much derided footnote in Australian political history. The vast majority of Australians, irrespective...
There's a growing dread at the CIA these days that the vultures are circling, waiting to pick off the agency's best parts. The latest move causing concern is a play by Admiral Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), to name the next intelligence chief in Kabul. CIA director Leon Panetta, who has already named his own chief from the CIA's ranks, is reportedly fighting back, much to his boss's consternation. The decision about who gets Kabul will reportedly be made in the White House, though Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein has said...
...emerged as Ahmadinejad's most serious challenger, is stepping back into the political spotlight after what the Iranian media has dubbed "20 years of silence." Mousavi's low profile may work to his benefit. Iranians seeking an alternative to Ahmadinejad's truculence have latched onto Mousavi with little concern, it seems, over the fact that in the 1980s, the gray-bearded 67-year-old was at the heart of a regime that executed dissidents, took U.S. hostages and launched a fatwa against author Salman Rushdie. New - though notoriously unreliable - polling suggests Mousavi has drawn ahead of Ahmadinejad after a campaign...