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...Retired pathologist EUGENE FOSTER collected blood samples from 14 men, black and white, who claim to be descended from Jefferson. The distinctive, largely unchanging Y (male) chromosomes of Jefferson's white descendants, Foster writes in this week's Nature, almost precisely match those of descendants of Hemings' last son ESTON, who was born at Monticello in 1808. They do not match those of her first son, long thought to be Jefferson's, or those of Jefferson's two nephews, often said to have sired Hemings' children...
...Retired pathologist Eugene Foster collected blood samples from 14 men, black and white, who claim to be descended from Jefferson. The distinctive, largely unchanging Y (male) chromosomes of Jefferson's white descendants, Foster writes in this week's Nature, almost precisely match those of descendants of Hemings' last son, Eston, who was born at Monticello in 1808. They do not match those of her first son, long thought to be Jefferson's, or those of Jefferson's two nephews, who were often said to have sired Hemings' children...
...Eston said that one cause of riots in Northern cities is police brutality toward "a large group of people here who are simply ignored, as if their existence were a big mistake...
...result of an 18-month survey led by Dean Eston K; Feaster of West Virginia University's College of Education, the report gave West Virginia (pop. 1,900,000) little cause for pride. Even taking into consideration the shocking fact that the state's pupils rank five points below the national average in IQ, youngsters still do not begin to accomplish all they could. In scholastic achievement, ninth-graders are nearly two years behind the national norm. Third-graders lag by half a year, sixth-graders by a year and a quarter, twelfth-graders by nine-tenths...
...Harvard the Russians, studying the treatment of polio, will visit Thomas H. Weller, Richard Strong Professor of Public Health, Albert H. Coone, Visiting Professor of Bacteriology, and Monree D. Eston, professor of Bacteriology...