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...Obama's decisions as President seemed to enjoy the show and connect with his vision of the future. "I'm not an Obama fan in terms of his politics," Marnie Verhoven said after the show. "But he's a shining light. He gives people hope." Or, as another audience member, Uwe Dragon, put it: "Try to make a musical about [German Foreign Minister] Guido Westerwelle, and then see who shows...
...more detailed detective work. Rather than compare the rates of depression and migraine of the relatives to those of the general population, the study compared rates within this isolated population itself. For each of the 977 people studied, they calculated how much DNA that person shared with every other member in the study. A brother and sister, for example, share many more genes than distantly related cousins. Comparing these relationships to the prevalence of both diseases enabled researchers to determine that it was genetics, not chance, that led to the association. (See "The Year in Health...
...March 2004 special election to replace Cheryl Jacques in the Massachusetts state senate. Won re-election in November 2004, then again in 2006 and 2008. Is one of only five Republicans in the 40-member state senate...
...which barred the "promotion of homosexuality" in schools and defined gay partnerships as "pretended family relationships." Such homophobia emboldened both gay-rights advocates and future politicians. "People came out who otherwise wouldn't have, and it woke up our heterosexual friends and family," says Michael Cashman, now a Labour Member of the European Parliament. In 1989, Cashman and actor Ian McKellen co-founded campaign group Stonewall. Around the same time, Cashman played the role of a kindhearted gay man on popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. As Cashman says: "We moved on and politics eventually followed." (Read: "Bad News...
Just weeks after authorities gunned down Arturo Beltrán Leyva, one of Mexico's most dangerous drug lords, police arrested his brother Carlos, also a member of the infamous Beltrán Leyva cartel. The arrest comes amid rising violence: 29 people were killed in drug-related attacks in a 24-hour period in Ciudad Juárez, whose turf battles between rival cartels have made it Mexico's deadliest city...