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...without cancer, with a carefully matched control group of never-smokers. While the variants were associated with an increased risk of lung cancer in smokers, that genetic predisposition is not destiny. In the U.S.-based study, led by Christopher Amos, an epidemiologist at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, people who never smoked but still had the genetic variants showed no increased risk of lung cancer, which suggests that nicotine might be necessary to trigger the tumor-building process - and that smokers with this particular genetic profile are only at greater risk for developing lung cancer if they expose...
...wasn’t the only thing shining in Houston, as the Harvard track and field team posted several bests and firsts at the Texas Southern Relays and the Victor Lopez Bayou Classic to kick off the 2008 spring season.“We brought a much larger contingent this year,” co-captain Molly Boyle said. “We had great weather the whole time and we were able to do really well.”Having finished strong in the indoor season, the Crimson looks to carry that momentum to the outdoors. Both squads have...
...Accelerate is that optimistic, but the best bits are. On Houston, about people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, there's venom for the government but hope too ("Houston is filled with promise/Laredo's a beautiful place"), while Supernatural Superserious zooms from summer camp to a Harry Houdini reference to a classic pop climax ("inexperience, sweet, delirious/supernatural, superserious") with giddy confidence...
...hardly unusual for Bill Clinton to spend Sunday mornings making the rounds at black churches in primary states. But the Sunday before Hillary Clinton's squeaker victory in Texas found her husband ensconced with daughter Chelsea at Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch, which is white, black and Latino. Why the change in venues? Polls by the progressive group Faith in Public Life show that Hillary has support among white Evangelical Democrats, winning them 57% to 35% over Barack Obama in Ohio, for example. The former President didn't address Osteen's congregation, but the preacher acknowledged him from the pulpit...
...this. Animal Precincts, a television show that follows New York City animal cruelty investigators as they crack down on animal abuse crimes, has been one of Animal Planet Channel’s top rated shows since its 2001 release, and has spawned five spin-off series from Animal Cops Houston to Miami Animal Police...