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Williams's group collected 16,000 DNA samples from Alzheimer's patients and healthy controls, while the French team, led by Dr. Philippe Amouyel at the Pasteur Institute, gathered more than 7,000 similar samples. Each team worked independently, unaware of the other lab's research, until both happened to present their data at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Vienna in July. Williams, who was in the audience when Amouyel gave his talk, immediately checked her database on her laptop and found to her delight that her group had identified the same high-risk genes as Amouyel...
...note is Billy Bartley, the son of the original founder and the restaurant's current manager and chef. After making so many Ted Kennedy burgers (famously described on the menu as “a plump, liberal amount of burger with cheddar cheese, mushrooms and French fries"), has Bartley decided it is time for him to be Ted Kennedy? Or is this morsel of a rumor just some more of Bartley’s tongue-in-cheek...
...abroad - that have focused particular attention on his woes. Over the past 10 days, he has filed lawsuits against the Rome daily La Repubblica for its repeated publication of a series of questions related to the sex scandals, as well as the Spanish daily El País and French weekly Nouvel Observateur...
...does most of the world travel on the right side today? Theories differ, but there's no doubt Napoleon was a major influence. The French have used the right since at least the late 18th century (there's evidence of a Parisian "keep-right" law dating to 1794). Some say that before the French Revolution, aristocrats drove their carriages on the left, forcing the peasantry to the right. Amid the upheaval, fearful aristocrats sought to blend in with the proletariat by traveling on the right as well. Regardless of the origin, Napoleon brought right-hand traffic to the nations...
...favorite to win the position of Director General at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, Hosni's chances of winning that role later this month have been hit by an international campaign launched earlier this year. It began with a boom last May, when French writer Bernard-Henri Lévy, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, and French film director Claude Lanzmann authored an editorial in Le Monde accusing Hosni of being a "dangerous man" who'd been responsible for a series of "insane declarations" regarding Israel and Jews. (See pictures...