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Shedding Our DNA Chains The article on epigenetics was thought provoking [Jan. 18]. I had always considered that natural selection was too slow and random a process to allow the animal kingdom to successfully deal with environmental change. I am now filled with hope and trepidation about the effects that future environmental challenges will have on the human race. If physiological conditioning can have a transient effect on our gene activity, then can sociological conditioning also determine the traits of future genetics such as physical appearance, attraction, sexual orientation, academic and sporting prowess? Are changes in epigenetic marks the driving...
...Ford does indeed take the road to Damascus, he will want more than just Arab hospitality when he gets there. He'll expect Syria to distance itself from its old friends in Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hizballah and will hope to coax Assad away from his alliance with Iran. But the Syrians aren't in such a hurry. While Damascus might be ready to recognize Israel if it hands back the Golan Heights region captured from Syria in 1967, it reserves the right to support Palestinian and Lebanese militants as long as Israel occupies Palestinian and Lebanese territory (the latter...
Despite their team being down by 11 points with just over five minutes left, the white-clad fans packed into the student section retained hope. Even as the Crimson trailed by eight with 66 seconds left, the crowd stuck by its mantra...
...nomination, was not a true fiscal conservative. Rather, he was a wolf in sheep's clothing, a "fiscal conservative in name only." The Campbell campaign responded by deploying its new-media consultant, Mindy Finn, on Twitter to try to direct the viral buzz. "If the GOP has any hope of taking back the senate it won't be by accusing each other of being #demonsheep," she wrote in one post, having already rated the spot a "marketing fail...
...interrogators have accompanied them. This raised more questions whether the unit was functional. "It's moving along," was all Blair said. When committee vice-chair Christopher "Kit" Bond, the Missouri Republican, asked whether HIG would be deployed if Osama Bin Laden were captured, Blair responded. "I would very much hope that the HIG would interrogate him and squeeze all the information out of him." Before reading Miranda rights to bin Laden? Bond asked. "I'm not going to talk about that," Blair said...