Word: environmentalism
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One encouraging finding: most of the genetic defects identified in the Middle Eastern families were not in the business part of the gene - the part that codes for a critical brain protein. Instead the defects lay mainly in adjacent regions that turn the gene fully or partially on and off...
In 1920s Rhodesia, leopards and snakes roamed the bush. Yet for 6-year-old Doris Lessing, this inhospitable environment offered a welcome refuge from her parents: Alfred, a soldier whose leg had been shattered by shrapnel in World War I, and Emily, a wartime nurse who helped to amputate it...
"Our research and teaching must generate knowledge about how we, not just at Harvard but across the United States and around the world, might use the discoveries of science, of technology, and of policy analysis to create a sustainable environment for generations to come," she said.
Kim notes that babies enter a critical period between three and six months, when parental bonds are firmly established and when many infants begin transitioning from milk to solid foods. Kim acknowledges that it's still not clear what causes weight gain in babies in day care, but she speculates...
Although the European nations in the G-8 were in favor of the proposal and have long been pushing for stricter medium-term targets, the U.S. - along with Canada, Australia and host nation Japan - torpedoed the plan in favor of the more vague long-term goal. (Canada and Japan are...