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...only reasons for rejecting the commercial enterprise, we applaud his decision. We don’t, however, jump to our feet in clamorous ovation. There are too many other decisions that show the other side of Harvard’s heritage. Though it has eschewed participation in a DNA company, Harvard continues, for example, to maintain a real estate firm which, in its dealings with its tenants and the city, uses none of the delicacy Harvard applied to questions of genes and chromosomes. As an example, this winter saw the end of a two-year-long drama with the departure...
...John Grisham is throwing his full personal support behind this, his first nonfiction book, even showing up at Doubleday's BookExpo luncheon. The book is the story of a man who is exonerated of raping and killing a waitress by DNA evidence, only five days before his 1999 execution. His confident publisher simply put a huge picture of the mega-bestselling author in its catalog, with the tag line, "Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction...
...thing that we’ve shown very solidly is there was a complex speciation between humans and chimpanzees,” said David Reich, an assistant professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and the senior author of the Nature paper. A comparison of the DNA sequences of humans and chimps revealed that the complete divergence of the two species took over four million years, Reich said. The evidence indicated that the decisive split between humans and chimpanzees “must have occurred more recently than 6.3 million years, and probably [even] more recently than 5.4 million years...
...next is a discovery hearing that could produce additional DNA testing results on the lacrosse team members, hospital reports, and other evidence, and perhaps another grand jury impaneled to consider a third indictment...
...relatives of powerful figures, from the Kennedys (and even the Bushes) of the U.S. and the Gandhis of India to the Kabilas of the Congo and the Kenyattas of Kenya? It is as if the desire to continue reverencing and being ruled by established bloodlines were encoded in our dna. James Louis Ndirangu Nanyuki, Kenya