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Councilors Marjorie C. Decker and Kenneth E. Reeves '72 tied with two votes each, with first-term council member and Harvard Kennedy School student Leland Cheung supporting Decker and council member Craig A. Kelley in favor of Reeves. Both Decker and Reeves also voted for themselves...
...nine new council members' votes were divided among five candidates, but a council member must receive at least five votes in order to be elected as mayor for a two-year term...
...need a mayor, and we need, collectively as a group, to choose a mayor," council member Sam Seidel said. "We will sort of stay at it and keep working at it until we [get] there...
More recently, however, researchers have begun to realize that epigenetics could also help explain certain scientific mysteries that traditional genetics never could: for instance, why one member of a pair of identical twins can develop bipolar disorder or asthma even though the other is fine. Or why autism strikes boys four times as often as girls. Or why extreme changes in diet over a short period in Norrbotten could lead to extreme changes in longevity. In these cases, the genes may be the same, but their patterns of expression have clearly been tweaked. (See the best pictures...
...move followed reports in June 2008 from Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican and the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, that psychiatrist Joseph Biederman of Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital received $1.6 million in consulting and speaking fees from the makers of drugs that he used to treat children for bipolar disorders