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...news of Riccò's drug ouster broke. "You have to expect it by now," said one father, holding his young son in his arms. "It's sad." After Rasmussen was sent home by his Rabobank team last year for refusing to answer questions about his training regimen, daily paper France Soir declared the "death of the Tour de France on July...
...receptor, the parasite starved and died.) More than 90% of sub-Saharan Africans lack the red-blood-cell receptor, along with two-thirds of African-Americans. But the variant that once saved its carriers from one disease now appears to make them more susceptible to another. According to the paper, people with the gene variant were 40% more likely to become infected with HIV than people without...
...Asian domains, the works of which are often overlooked in Islamic-art collections. Among the IAMM's standouts is a rare 19th century Koran, made for a Malay sultan with lashings of gold illumination. Precious, too, are the Chinese calligraphic wall scrolls with Koranic quotations - not merely because paper scrolls rarely last, but because so many were buried by fearful Muslims or destroyed by Maoists during the Cultural Revolution. Several are testimony to the fusion of Chinese and Islamic artistic traditions, bearing inscriptions that from a distance look like the traditional Chinese characters meaning "long life" but turn...
...audio clips are embedded in most texts, often adding timely examples from real-life practitioners. Plus, the texts are produced on an open-source platform, meaning they can be updated easily and professors can customize each textbook to match a particular lesson plan. Those are major advantages over paper editions, says Dana Lanham, an advertising professor at University of North Carolina in Charlotte. "Being online lets the content be so dynamic," says Lanham, who will teach some 70 students using Flat World texts this fall. "Usually textbooks are out of date as soon as you print them...
...still faces a long road to success. There is, for one, its business model. Founder Frank and his partner, Jeff Shelstad, another Prentice Hall alum, say the company plans to forgo advertising on the site and instead make money by selling supplemental materials like study guides, podcasts and paper copies printed on demand for about $35, or about a third of the cost of a traditional textbook...