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...conferences: you had to be wasted to enjoy them. And the genre had two tones, either apoplectic or apologist. But this summer is bringing us a bumper crop of movies and TV shows--Pineapple Express, The Wackness, Humboldt County and Showtime's Weeds among them--with THC in their DNA. Not stoner stories so much as plots that happen to involve pot, they ask, 37 years after the war on drugs was declared, whether there's a place in the culture for treatments of pot that neither criminalize nor celebrate...
Most of us move through our days with only a vague awareness of our genetic endowment, fretting perhaps over a familial tendency toward heart disease or beaky noses. But families affected by fragile X can discuss their genome with startling specificity. Their key concern is a small strip of DNA on the long arm of the X chromosome. Normally, humans have five to 55 repetitions of the nucleotides CGG (cytosine, guanine, guanine) in this region. But for unknown reasons, the number of CGG repeats can expand beyond normal as the DNA is copied from mother to child...
...them" - but that belies very real concerns on the part of the government of the threat of widespread dissent. Across the walls of Dhaka University's sprawling campus are murals of activists and revolutionaries breaking their chains and fighting the state. Military rule may be encoded in Bangladesh's DNA, but so too is resistance...
...Later in the channel's coverage, Brokaw talked about how deeply Russert felt the pull of the politics he covered: "He really believed that politics are the DNA of this country." And just as inextricably, Russert is now part of the DNA of American political journalism...
...Nancy Gibbs--and offers a memorable patchwork-quilt portrait of our times. Since 1923, we have been explaining the world to our readers in vivid, deeply reported and authoritative prose--something we do week in and week out. The great writing and reporting in the book form the DNA of the great writing and reporting contained in the magazine you are holding in your hands...