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...fake illness, RLS gained new ground in the scientific community this week after researchers at Emory University in Atlanta and the Iceland-based company DeCODE Genetics identified a gene variant that increases risk for the condition. The team reported their findings in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Those findings, along with a separate study published simultaneously in Nature Genetics, which found variants in three genes linked with RLS, suggest that RLS is a both a genuine syndrome and one that can be treated more effectively...
...spurred Britain's economy during his 10 years as Chancellor had little to do with Brown, for one thing. But Britain's longest-serving finance minister since the 1820s is owed at least some of the plaudits. For example, his bold decision to grant independence to the Bank of England in 1997 separated politics from the setting of interest rates, helping raise confidence in the U.K. economy and providing a backdrop for stable growth...
...comfort with PDA, New England's puritanical roots must have rubbed off on me. I'll admit I was taken aback at seeing a couple having sex on Avenue Kleber en plein air on their street-facing balcony. For the first couple of weeks in Paris, each time I saw a couple kissing on the street, I was reminded of the morning a man shouted “Excusez moi!” and then “Regardez!” before proceeding to show me something I surely did not want to “regard...
...just China. In the U.S., where only about 20 percent of adults smoke, the problem of second-hand smoke exposure is perhaps not as readily apparent as it is in China. Nevertheless, more states should follow the example set by California and New York and countries like France and England, where smoking is banned in most, if not all, public places. In addition to improving public health in that specific area, these bans raise awareness to the serious and often underestimated dangers of second-hand smoke and could inspire other countries to follow suit. The decision should be simple?...
...favorite professional athlete in sport today? That's a great question. I enjoy watching [New England Patriots quarterback] Tom Brady a lot. With him coming out of college and being an underdog--no one giving him a chance--what he has become as a professional athlete has exceeded expectations and more. And with him, it's definitely all about the fourth quarter...