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...protein, called DUF1220, found in areas of the brain associated with higher cognitive function. The gene comes in multiple copies in a wide range of primates--but, the scientists found, humans carry the most copies. African great apes have substantially fewer copies, and the number found in more distant kin--orangutans and Old World monkeys--drops off even more...
...felt to Irwin was that we were both fathers and husbands. So, like many people, I first thought about his wife Terri, daughter Bindi and son Bob. Irwin was foremost a family man. His working life-or that part of it open to public view-was enmeshed with kin, three generations of the clan riding in the Team Irwin prime mover, sharing the same passions and one another's company. But the genuine shock and sadness of parents and kids as the news spread in my children's playground after school last Monday told me that Irwin had found...
...government-planned swimathon this week, which organizers hope will attract around 1,000 participants, has worried some who think it's too soon to risk a plunge in the Pearl. "I wouldn't swim in it," says Professor Ho Kin Chung, head of the Environmental Studies program at the Open University of Hong Kong, who worries about health risks posed by taking a dip in the water. "I think it's crazy." Indeed, doctors have advised swimmers to flush their eyes with antibiotic drops, and to refrain from taking part if they have cuts on their skin, while Guangzhou...
...elected leaders of cocooning themselves in a highly fortified Baghdad enclave, with little thought for the plight of their countrymen. "The concrete walls of the Green Zone are too high, so they can't see what's happening to us," says Khaled Raseef, the spokesman for the Haditha victims' kin. Whatever they think of the Marines, Raseef says he was impressed with the thoroughness with which the U.S. military has investigated the killings. As of last week, he says, nobody from the Iraqi government had contacted him for an account of what happened...
...They were especially impressed by the NCIS investigators. ?They must have visited the houses 15 times,? says Khalid Raseef, a spokesman for the victims' kin and uncle of Emaan and Abdel Rahman Waleed, the children who lost almost their entire immediate family in the massacre. The investigators ?asked detailed questions, examined each bullet hole and burn mark, and took all sorts of measurements. In the end, they brought all the survivors to the homes and did a mock-up of the Marines' movements. It was a very professional investigation...