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...Your cover line, "The Threat in Yemen ... a tough challenge for the West" fills me with foreboding. What will be our brilliant strategy this time? To wade in again, missile-handed, and further destabilize an already fragile country, alienating yet more of its citizens? Terrorism is a worldwide problem and needs a worldwide response. We all hate terrorism, but when it comes to foreign policy, the solutions should be spearheaded by a strongly financed and resourced U.N. Maybe it's time to get behind and support the organization we have marginalized for so long. Give it the power...
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...
...worked at the site. But the outlook is grim for commercial construction firms such as Oltmans and its union work force. Asked if business is picking up, Oltmans Project Manager James Wu, 37, says, "I have not seen it. It's not looking good ahead." (See TIME's cover story on unemployment in the Great Recession...
Obama claims to have scuttled Constellation in order to replace it with a partially privatized space program. But this is Washington doublespeak at its worst and nothing less than a cover for doing away with the program. Like national defense and fire departments, space exploration is at present a public good, optimally undertaken by governments. The private space industry has a very important role to play but it cannot and should not replace the role of government—the two are synergistic...
Back at last Saturday’s meet, I make a crucial mistake following the gold medalist’s dominant performance in the sprint. I leave early to cover the Crimson wrestling team in a double-header, departing just as the warm-ups for the pole vault get underway. It is not until the next morning that I find myself staring incredulously at my computer screen...