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Historians have long debated whether THOMAS JEFFERSON had a sexual relationship with one of his slaves, SALLY HEMINGS. Now we have an answer. Retired pathologist EUGENE FOSTER collected blood samples from 14 men, black and white, who claim to be descended from Jefferson. The distinctive, largely unchanging Y (male) chromosomes of Jefferson's white descendants, Foster writes in this week's Nature, almost precisely match those of descendants of Hemings' last son ESTON, who was born at Monticello in 1808. They do not match those of her first son, long thought to be Jefferson's, or those of Jefferson...
Historians have long debated whether Thomas Jefferson had a sexual relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings. Now we have an answer. Retired pathologist Eugene Foster collected blood samples from 14 men, black and white, who claim to be descended from Jefferson. The distinctive, largely unchanging Y (male) chromosomes of Jefferson's white descendants, Foster writes in this week's Nature, almost precisely match those of descendants of Hemings' last son, Eston, who was born at Monticello in 1808. They do not match those of her first son, long thought to be Jefferson's, or those of Jefferson...
...Palestinian Authority initially pointed fingers at Israel, saying a pathologist had found that Sharif was shot before his body was blown up in a car bomb. Today, however, they appeared to concede that Sharif had been assembling the car bomb at the time of his death. Palestinian security officials are also working with Israel to investigate Sharif?s death and are rounding up his supporters. ?The Palestinian Authority has no interest in seeing a new round of Hamas attacks,? says Beyer. Still, it may be some time before Israelis and their Palestinian neighbors can again breathe easy...
...another odd coincidence, that same August, as Fukuda investigated the new virus in Hong Kong, the quest to understand the 1918 epidemic suddenly gained momentum, with help from a surprising quarter. Out of the blue, Taubenberger got a letter from a retired San Francisco pathologist, Johan Hultin, who had read Taubenberger's paper in Science and saw at last an opportunity for which he had been waiting for nearly a half-century...
...those who can tolerate Holub's tendency to climb up onto his high horse, Shedding Life should prove a successful marriage of the two cultures, appealing to both poet and pathologist, without condescending to either. Most importantly, Shedding Life proves to be a valuable and surprising perspective on the political climate of Eastern Europe today...