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...November, Sana was invited back to New York by Seeds of Peace, and, reluctantly, she decided to go. "On CNN and Fox News I kept hearing how Islam was a violent religion, but it's not, and I felt I had to explain that," she says. She felt apprehensive landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport. At Customs, which she had always sailed through before, she was herded into a line with people who, she says, were "a little darker. They made the men stand with their hands in the air, and they checked every little thing in the bags...
...calories available in the food we consume have gone up, from 3,100 calories per capita per day in the 1960s to 3,700 in the 1990s, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). "And that alone," says New York University nutritionist Marion Nestle, "is sufficient to explain the obesity epidemic...
...fact that obesity has genetic roots does not explain the larger mystery. If obesity is so bad for us--and there is no question it is--then why are so many people susceptible to layering on excess fat? The answer may well lie in what is referred to as the Thrifty Gene Hypothesis, which supposes that obesity genes have been maintained in the human population because they conferred an appreciable survival advantage...
...mirror told Cox that she was different from her parents and three of her siblings (a younger brother was also adopted from South Korea), and childhood experiences emphasized the racial isolation from her loving family she sometimes felt. "In any new situation, I felt I always had to explain who I was and where I was from," she recalls...
...theory, at least, the findings explain why primates other than humans can't speak. They also suggest that improved communication allowed early modern humans to expand across the globe. --By Cornelia Stolze. With reporting by Blaine Greteman/London