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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that effort is beginning to pay off. The largest genetic study of autism ever attempted - involving more than 3,000 participants from AGRE, 1,453 cases from other sources and over 7,000 additional control subjects - identified genetic variations in a region of chromosome 5 that appears to play a pivotal role in about 15% of cases of autism. What makes this region particularly fascinating is that it seems to regulate gene-coding for proteins that are essential to forming connections in the brain. This fits well with earlier research - including imaging and autopsy studies - that suggest autism is essentially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autism Linked to Genes That Govern How the Brain Is Wired | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...though he's now of legal drinking age, Efron is 17 again. Not that it's a stretch for him to play someone four years younger. He still has the mop top, the downy skin and the sensuous sanctity of the boy every mother wants her daughter to bring home - if he weren't dating his dimpled co-star from High School Musical, Vanessa Hudgens. He could be the perfect perpetual adolescent. It's as if everyone wants him to be 17 forever. (See pictures of famous couples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zac Efron: The Tweens' Dream | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...According to Kopleman, by the end of the JV season, typically only four or five players would participate in the games. Organized as a club sport, the new team has more freedom than an official, athletic department-sponsored team, according to many of its members. “We play club because we want more playing time, but we also want to be engaged in the wider Harvard Community,” said club Soccer team co-president David M. Sengeh ’10. “We want to give back and be a part of community service...

Author: By Kerry E. Kartsonis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Club Soccer Hosts Cup | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Sexual violence and gender inequality are real. According to most estimates, between one-third and one-fifth of women will experience sexual or domestic violence at the hands of a male friend, partner, spouse, or date during their lifetime. The MenSpeakUp campaign believes that men must play a prominent part in addressing these problems if significant progress is to be made. A society of mutual respect requires men to rethink how they treat and interact with women...

Author: By Gordon Braxton, Raúl A. Carrillo, and Hugo Van vuuren | Title: Men, Speak Up! | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

That was the secretary next door. She’s retiring early and thought she could play a prank on me. Can someone please tell me how to delete this thing...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Twitter for Administrators? | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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