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Historians have long debated whether Thomas Jefferson had a sexual relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings. Now we have an answer. Retired pathologist Eugene Foster collected blood samples from 14 men, black and white, who claim to be descended from Jefferson. The distinctive, largely unchanging Y (male) chromosomes of Jefferson's white descendants, Foster writes in this week's Nature, almost precisely match those of descendants of Hemings' last son, Eston, who was born at Monticello in 1808. They do not match those of her first son, long thought to be Jefferson's, or those of Jefferson...
...spill, which also forced out all occupants out of the Jefferson and Cruft Laboratories, was quickly contained and the evacuated facilities were reopened about three hours later...
...phosphorous acid spill also resulted in the evacuation of Jefferson and Cruft Laboratories...
...course, this should not be surprising. After all, diversity is one of the characterizing principles of American society. It is also the central commonality among successful secondary schools such as the Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia or Stuyvesant High School in New York, the same schools that produce many of Harvard's students. And it is this goal of diversity which also underlies many of the decisions made by the College admissions office...
...simple. Making the movie was harder--not just re-creating Reconstruction-era Cincinnati in today's Philadelphia and Delaware but also finding the crucially right actors for four shifting, demanding roles, in which Glover would be the only other star. Newton, the Anglo-African actress who illuminated Flirting and Jefferson in Paris, came to the first script reading with an early, teasing hint of her character's mannerisms; her regal beauty explains how Beloved can cast a spell over Sethe and her brood. In the role of Baby Suggs, Beah Richards, who 30 years ago won an Oscar nomination...