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...still in house dust is a surprise to most people, since the pesticide was banned in the U.S. in 1972. But a house is a little like a living organism: once it absorbs a contaminant, it may never purge it completely. "Dust in our homes," says Beamer, "especially deep dust in our carpets and furniture, is a conglomerate of substances over the life of the home and can provide a historical record of chemicals that have entered...
...polio vaccine and drugs for everything from Parkinson's to AIDS. But Lacks' children, many of them too poor to afford medical care, were never consulted about or even thanked for their mother's involuntary gift to science. Journalist Rebecca Skloot's history of the miraculous cells reveals deep injustices in U.S. medical research--chief among them the fact that the woman whose body helped cure us all left behind family members too scared to go to the hospital when they get sick...
After shooting 20 percent from deep against Cornell, the Crimson lit it up from beyond the arc, knocking down 10 three-pointers on 22 attempts. McNally led the Harvard sharpshooters, hitting five treys on the night and four in the first half alone...
McNally sparked the run after the Agho three-pointer, receiving a pass on the perimeter from Curry and then knocking down the triple. McNally struck again from deep when Harvard took back possession. Curry pulled down an offensive rebound and then kicked it out to the perimeter, where Lin swung it to McNally, who drained the three-ball, putting the Crimson ahead...
...disconnect is deep. When the U.S. declared its embargo against Libya in the '80s, Gaddafi banned all teaching of English in schools, as well as English-language books and movies. Libyan children have long been taught that the U.S. is their enemy. "Only 10 years ago, we were in outright confrontation with the West," says Youssef Sawani, executive director of the Gaddafi Development Foundation, a hugely powerful body headed by Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam. "It will take some time to change...