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...pretty obvious even to nonscientists that how you get there depends partly on the genes you are born with and partly on lifestyle--what and how much you eat, where you live and what types of stress and trauma you experience. How much depends on each factor, though, was unknown until Swedish scientists tackled the problem in 1998. They did it by looking at the only set of people who share genes but not lifestyle: identical twins who were separated at birth and reared apart. If genes were most important, you would expect the twins to die at about...
...Americans to gold, scored strong 9.7s on those routines, giving her the first U.S. women's all-around gold since Mary Lou Retton's in 1984. It was America's first individual sweep. For Patterson, the "new Mary Lou" label is inevitable. But she may lack the perkiness factor that has kept Retton in the public eye. The '84 champ hasn't stopped smiling since Los Angeles, but Patterson barely showed any enamel when a group of cameramen asked her to flash her medal and shine after the victory. "Mary Lou was an open book," says Bela Karolyi...
When buying a digital camera, many people focus on just one factor: megapixels, the more the better. But that's not the whole story. Lens quality, image-processing capability and even the size of the pixels can all have a greater effect on how your pictures turn out. "The number of megapixels," says Bob Sobol, an image scientist at Hewlett-Packard, "is relatively unimportant...
...Another factor affecting quality is the brains of your camera: it needs to have enough processing power to turn raw data into a beautiful picture. The quality of the lens is also important to ensure that your picture is focused and to pull in enough light to get a good exposure. "If you have a bad lens, the number of megapixels doesn't mean anything," says Atsushi Tashiro, a product-development manager for Fujifilm...
...Brodie said that while the Medicare law could be a decisive factor in a close presidential election, voters would also be weighing issues such as the war in Iraq and the state of the economy...