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...represent a biological response to an environmental stressor. That response can be inherited through many generations via epigenetic marks, but if you remove the environmental pressure, the epigenetic marks will eventually fade, and the DNA code will - over time - begin to revert to its original programming. That's the current thinking, anyway: that only natural selection causes permanent genetic change. (See "The Year in Health 2009: From...
...been beefed up at both domestic and foreign airports, especially for the citizens of countries like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Sudan. More air marshals have been added. More names have been added to the no-fly list. "The State Department is now requiring embassies and consulates to include current visa information in their warning on individuals with terrorist or suspected terrorist connections," Obama said on Tuesday, citing a new effort that had been announced in the Situation Room meeting, which was attended by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
...mosque - built of creamy Italian marble and English stained glass - and its golden cupolas were, for Burgess, symbols of royal vanity. (It's something visitors to the Royal Regalia Museum, dedicated to the life of the current Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and the many gifts he has received from international dignitaries, may well recognize.) Devil of a State ends with the consecration of a similar mosque, worked on by Paolo Tasca, a ruttish Italian marble cutter, and his gruff father Nando. Just before the ceremony, Paolo locks himself in a minaret to protest his father's imperiousness. Democracy activists take...
...grown in stature as a safari destination, so Swakopmund, relatively undeveloped and off the beaten track until the 1970s, has quietly blossomed. Hollywood has even made an appearance: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's daughter Shiloh was born there in 2006, and the city is a location for the current U.S. remake of the 1960s British television series The Prisoner. Here are five of its main attractions. (See the best travel gadgets...
...goal is not only to improve conditions for the current participants of such programs, but also hopefully to reduce the risk of problems in successive generations, including major causes of death and disability like obesity, heart disease and stroke. "It's not a secret that there is a growing epidemic of obesity and there's no question that the way we eat and the way we exercise, or do not exercise, is contributing to it. But it's a huge mistake to attribute it just to the need to close down fast-food restaurants and turn off the TV. There...