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Instead of sending tens of millions of dollars to Yemen for military purposes, the U.S. should be spending funds to eliminate illiteracy and poverty [Jan. 18]. Building schools with qualified teachers and medical clinics in every village would truly help the people of Yemen. Robert Read Sr., HICKORY...
...Atrocity of Human Trafficking As a former prostitute, I found E. Benjamin Skinner's descriptions of the young trafficked girls in South Africa excruciatingly painful [Jan. 18]. I felt their rapes in my memory. Skinner writes about the difficulty of healing after emancipation. But the depth of harm done to these young girls is beyond suffering, and I'm not sure there ever is "emancipation." After they are rescued, what life is there for these girls? Can they ever really recover? Suki Falconberg, SAN FRANCISCO...
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...
Shedding Our DNA Chains Kudos on your cover story on epigenetics [Jan. 18]. As the director of mind-body medicine for a cancer center that offers seminars on how patients can benefit from this emerging science, I can attest that most have never heard of epigenetics. Yet everything in our environment - the way we think and feel, our exposure to stress - affects the way our DNA is expressed. Once we understand this premise, we can incorporate strategies to effect epigenetic changes - including neurogenesis, the growth of new nerve tissue in the brain. Brenda Stockdale Atlanta...
AQIM had set a Jan. 31 deadline for Mali to release four of the group's imprisoned members in exchange for Camatte's freedom, but that date came and went with no action from the government, prompting French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to make an urgent visit to the country on Tuesday to try to resolve the situation. Spain's El Mundo newspaper reported last month that AQIM wanted $7 million and the release of several other militants in exchange for freeing the three Spanish hostages, but Madrid has ruled out paying a ransom. According to an audiotape released...