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...Today Solanum tuberosum has gone global to become the world's fourth largest food crop after wheat, rice and maize - not bad for a tuber whose ancestor is the highly toxic wild potato and whose closest cousin is the deadly nightshade. And its popularity still has vast potential for growth: Asia has replaced Europe as the center of production as its populations begin to embrace French fries as well as rice...
...Marley J. Brush—daughter of Felipe’s co-owner Thomas J. Brush—and partner Liza Baer-Kahn will be opening a coffee shop called Crème Café in Harvard Square come April. Mr. Brush’s cousin, Rob Stumm, opened a Felipe’s Taqueria near the Tulane campus. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...only chance for A-listers to dress up pretty, glide down a red carpet and subtly remind viewers around the world that their latest film will soon be available on DVD. This was going to be the year that the British Academy finally stepped out from behind its American cousin's shadow...
Reactions to Jindal by Indians in the homeland have been more negative than those in the American Diaspora. But the mentality there, as well as here, is telling. Following the news of Jindal’s win, the Times of India telephoned Bobby’s cousin Gulshan. “It’s a great honor not just for our family, but Punjab and the nation as well, [for] the son of this soil [to] have achieved something really big,” he said. Meanwhile, celebrations were erupting in Jindal’s ancestral village of Khanpura...
...false sense of protection and lead to less condom usage," says Bowers, particularly among highly sexually active individuals. Last spring, following the buzz over studies of tenofovir and emtricitabine, the same drug combo used in the recent Texas mice study, in preventing transmission of SIV (the primate-specific cousin of HIV) in macaque monkeys, Bowers was compelled to respond in his column in HIV Plus magazine, warning that "society once again is moving ahead of science. ... This is definitely not the time to be leaving condoms behind...