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...down other people who have inherited a genetic risk. So far, the researchers have identified 13 other families in the U.S. who have the same genetic fingerprint and founder mutation and are all related. "We think those other 13 families out there link in at some point and we predict that there are hundreds of families out there who carry this genetic risk," says Neklason...
Once that happened Saturday morning, the Jesuits' modern press operation quickly sent out a press release biography, and a rare photo of the bespectacled new leader. Indeed Nicolas, who has lived almost uninterruptedly in the Far East since 1964, was not on the shortlist of those experts trying to predict who would get the nod. One Jesuit source said, only half-jokingly, after learning of the choice: "He doesn't like Rome...
...temperatures warm, the Arctic sea ice that supports the polar bear shrinks, leaving the animals to drown as they are forced to swim long distances between the ice, or simply starve to death. The summer of 2007 saw record melting of Arctic sea ice, and NASA scientists now predict that the Arctic could be ice-free as soon as the summer of 2013. "Without the sea ice, there is no polar bear," says Andrew Wetzler, director of the Natural Resource Defense Council's endangered species project. Indeed, a study by the United States Geological Service in September 2007 projected that...
Although pundits and campaign staffers alike will spend the days leading up to the South Carolina primary attempting to predict the outcome of the "black vote," the voters themselves prove the folly of such an exercise. Hammock says she will end up making what she calls a highly "political" choice: she wants to give "this one little ole vote" to whichever Democrat she believes is going to win the nomination so that he or she has the most resounding mandate possible going into the general election. Meanwhile, Anderson told me in Columbia that she didn't yet have enough information...
...even deeper than that, with related research conducted by marital expert John Gottman of the Gottman Institute in Seattle revealing just how sensitive spouses are to such nonverbal signs of disdain or dismissal. Coan, who has collaborated with Gottman, says: "How often someone rolls their eyes at you can predict how often you need to go to the doctor...