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...region of chromosome 5 that appears to play a pivotal role in about 15% of cases of autism. What makes this region particularly fascinating is that it seems to regulate gene-coding for proteins that are essential to forming connections in the brain. This fits well with earlier research - including imaging and autopsy studies - that suggest autism is essentially a disorder of poor connections in the brain. (See pictures of a school for children with autism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autism Linked to Genes That Govern How the Brain Is Wired | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...conversation is (a steamy striptease versus pretending to care about someone else’s problems), you can always just admire your digital image staring back at you. And even if said person catches you catching a vainglorious glimpse, chances are he/she was doing the same thing moments earlier. Technology has brought us full circle: from actually talking in person, to writing letters, to talking on the phone, to writing e-mails, to, once again, speaking face-to-face, whether from opposite ends of the globe or from opposite ends of the classroom. Vid chat is the closest thing...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love It: Video Chatting | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...test for two years now, and results from testing on laboratory mice have been very encouraging,” said Pichumani Balagurumoorthy, a research fellow in Kassis’ lab. While testing with human subjects has only just begun, Balagurumoorthy said, the first few of such tests have corroborated earlier findings...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scientists Develop Novel Cancer Blood Test | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...Defense Ministry wrote to Katawal earlier this month, giving him 24 hours to clarify his actions. When the general wrote back defiantly, claiming the actions were legitimate, his removal looked imminent, sending shock waves through the political establishment and the donor and diplomatic community. The key opposition party to the Maoists, the Nepali Congress, disrupted parliament on Tuesday and was joined by 15 other political parties, including a key coalition partner, CPN-UML, to oppose the Maoists' move to unseat Katawal. Even the Indian ambassador to Kathmandu, Rakesh Sood, made several representations to Prime Minister Prachanda, asking him to back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal's Maoist Government Faces Unrest in the Ranks | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...accounts, accommodating all 19,000 former guerrillas in the army is not possible. Earlier this month, the Army Integration Special Committee set out to conduct the first survey of what the former rebels want to do. A vast majority are expected to opt to join the Nepal army, but those who don't make the cut will have to be assimilated into other security forces or given other jobs per the terms of the accord. "Some 5,000 have left - they just got tired of waiting," says Kosmos Biswokarma, spokesman for the U.N. mission in Nepal. "The rest are getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal's Maoist Government Faces Unrest in the Ranks | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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