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However important it may be, genetics is not destiny. Nor is poverty, culture or racism insurmountable. In fact, a number of developing countries, working with meager budgets over the past 20 years, have surpassed many parts of the U.S. in health care. A man living in Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations, has a better chance of reaching age 65 than a man in Harlem...
...alone. The drama of the past two weeks has done little to alter the daily routine in Pushkino. On the sidewalk in front of state stores, residents lined up to choose from the usual meager selection of canned goods and wilting vegetables, the relentless rain of an early autumn only adding to their discomfort. Outside the textile factory where he works, Ivan Shlykov, 47, waited for a bus under a shelter latticed with a hammer and sickle. "They can throw away all these symbols and drive the Communist Party underground," he said, "but what difference does it make...
Though the practical results of Thompson's experiment are meager so far, other states -- like Ohio, Arkansas and Kansas -- are experimenting with economic incentives of their own. And under the influence of a Republican Administration that prefers self-help to government assistance, such ideas are likely to gain momentum...
...Anderson's first cell was a cramped room in Beirut's Shi'ite slums where he lay chained and blindfolded. Later he and four others were moved to a basement dungeon that was partitioned into cubicles. The guards beat them and repeatedly threatened to kill them. , Food was a meager ration of bread, tea and cheese...
Mullis instantly recognized he had solved a problem that had fettered genetic research for decades: the fact that DNA samples are often too meager to work with. He turned to his girlfriend, also a biochemist, to explain his idea. "I thought this was a really cool invention that would make me famous," he recalls, "but she wasn't terribly thrilled about...