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...year-old drywall hanger in Eugene, Oregon, when he came home to find a draft notice waiting for him. "I went down to the draft board and asked them if this was really serious," he recalls, "or if it was like an invitation." But it was an order, the first of many Mellinger would obey. He started his military career as a clerk in what was then called West Germany, and was looking forward hanging up his uniform after two years of service. "I was dead-set on getting out," he says. "We had a lot of racial problems, drug...
...Medicine, a leading organization in the field of reproductive medicine, recommends that a woman under the age of 35 should have no more than two embryos implanted by way of in vitro fertilization (IVF). That limit was chosen, says Sean Tipton, director of public affairs for the society, in order to avoid multiple births through IVF that would expose both mother and offspring to significant health risks. This is merely one of several ethical, financial, psychological and medical issues that have arisen from the stunning news of the Suleman octuplets, who join the single mom's existing brood...
...common intuition that genes influence social behavior, accounting for the variability in an individual’s popularity. “The interesting point is not that the number of friends varies from person to person,” Chrisakis said, “[rather] that other higher-order aspects of network structure also appears to be genetically determined.” These high-order aspects of social networks include transitivity, or how well one’s friends know each other, and centrality, the tendency for an individual to be near the center verses the periphery of a network...
...eating too many hotdogs.” Other nitrite and nitrosame-containing foods implicated in this study include sausages, Chinese-style salted fish, and bacon. Although the correlation is very strong, this study does not point to a causal relationship between eating cured meats and leukemia, said Christiani. In order to show causation, researchers must look into the mechanism of how extracts from cured meats affect bone marrow at the cellular level. “These results need to be confirmed in other studies before doctors can make strong recommendations,” he said. “We don?...
...free citizen," allowing him to walk out of his prolonged sentence. Moments after the decision, the man who in 2004 tumbled from grace after admitting to hawking nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea stepped out onto the front porch of his Islamabad home to hail the court order. Dressed in a navy blue shirt, he waved to the cameras with unconcealed glee. "It's matter of joy. The judgment, by the grace of Allah, is good," Khan told a gathered throng of reporters. (See a map of Khan's network for black-market nuclear technology...