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Natural selection can occur in a span of mere months—as some short-legged lizards learned the hard...
...Chavez allies, while the government has pressured state employees to support the President and has used state television to promote him. But the only director on the council sympathetic to the opposition assures that voting will be secret and that any fraud can easily be detected. If irregularities do occur, observers from the Organization of American States, the European Union and the Carter Center will be watching...
...that the victim was not injured, and according to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano, she refused medical treatment. Catalano declined to release any more information about the victim. According to the advisory, the victim was unable to provide a detailed description of the suspects. Because the incident did not occur on Harvard University property, it is currently being investigated by the Cambridge Police Department (CPD). According to CPD spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello, there were no developments in the investigation as of yesterday afternoon. Dunster resident Magdey A. Abdallah ’07 says that he still feels safe walking outside...
...While the genocide convention is relatively explicit about obligating its signatories to intervene to prevent genocide where it is occurring or preparing to occur, more often than not the world has declined to do so. And no one seriously believes that if widespread genocide unfolded in Iraq that the U.S. would be able to do anything about it. "The arc of humanitarian intervention has already been killed by Iraq for at least a generation," says Power. The clearest example of that is in Sudan. The United States has declared that genocide against the inhabitants of the Darfur region is under...
...autism among children is up to six times as great when the father is 40 or older, as opposed to when he is 29 or younger. In both studies, the mother's age was not relevant. The cause of the problem, researchers say, probably is changes in sperm that occur as men grow older...