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...boost the quitting success rate would be to match smokers with the right cessation program. A team of researchers, led by Jed Rose, director of the Duke University Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research, have begun doing just that. In their new study, the scientists screened the entire human genome and teased out a profile of genes that they think are involved in breaking nicotine addiction. Some of the genes influence basic cell communication; others code for enzymes that break down bupropion in the body. Everyone possesses all the genes in question, says Rose, but in different forms...
...decided that what I find so appealing in these shows is their very isolation: there is something in the requisite three hours alone that I find amazingly satisfying. Don’t get me wrong—I love my friends and, more broadly, human contact in more tangible forms than microphones and radio waves. Yet this forced loneliness offers some much-appreciated calm in the midst of the tumult of senior week social events and tearful roommate goodbye sessions...
...Diamond incorporated his research into his books, such as “The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal” and “Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality...
...next year, the law was expanded to cover federal funding from the Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services (HHS). (For Harvard, HHS is all important as the vast majority of the University’s $400 million in annual federal funding is channeled through the National Institutes of Health, a part...
...reality, though, is that the parents of Dujiangyan are unlikely to prevail. Sophie Richardson, a Human Rights Watch lawyer specializing in legal reform in China, says that the government has refused to renew the licenses of two prominent civil rights lawyers who offered to represent Tibetans in the wake of the violence in the Tibet Autonomous Region in March. "They don't allow politically sensitive cases to get anywhere," Richardson says. "I'd be very surprised if this turns out to be different." Liu Li says she just wants to know why her daughter's school turned into a death...