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...human body belong to the microbiota. "There is a vast reservoir of attributes associated with our human physiology that is derived from our gut microbial communities," he says. "Our genetic landscape is actually an amalgam, so it's slightly different from the genetic determinism of human genes flowing from parent to offspring. It's also the microbial genes that are acquired from early environmental exposures and transmitted within families as well...
...that firsthand. My wife Junling is a Shanghai native, and last month for the first time we visited my father at a nursing home in the U.S. She was shaken by the experience and later told me, "You know, in China, it's a great shame to put a parent into a nursing home." In China the social contract has been straightforward for centuries: parents raise children; then the children care for the parents as they reach their dotage. When, for example, real estate developer Jiang Xiao Li and his wife recently bought a new, larger apartment in Shanghai, they...
...often: mourn the dead, minister to the living. At least 545 soldiers from Fort Hood have died in Iraq and Afghanistan; now 13 more are gone, ranging in age from 19 to 62. One victim was a newlywed; one was three months pregnant; 19 children were left without a parent. Support groups kicked in, delivering food to the families. Local blood banks were swarmed with donors. The Facebook group Sgt. Kimberly Munley: A Real Hero has close to 24,000 fans and counting...
...conservative approach to the news and trying to rein in some of the magazine's more aggressive reporting. While the 11-year-old magazine had been a cash cow for the media group, it had received a smaller share of the revenues, according to current and former staffers. "The parent company milks it for a huge chunk of their revenue," says a former staffer. "She's been cash-strapped trying to do new projects." (See pictures from the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic...
...recall is a nightmare for Maclaren. Prior to Monday, its strollers had a reputation for dependability. Now they're the ones that could cut kids' fingers off. The search terms "Maclaren fingertip amputation" pulled up more than 5,000 results on Google. The parent blogs are buzzing. One, Daddy Types, has dubbed the affair Macopalypse 2009. Another, called Mother Load, wrote the post "MacLaren recall: is there nothing safe?" The author wrote, "Fingertip amputation? And they had to get to TWELVE cases before they issued a recall?" (See iPhone apps for new moms...