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While the test results can pack an emotional wallop that brings many to tears--especially adoptees, descendants of slaves and others who previously had little knowledge of their roots--skeptics have raised questions about their accuracy. "When genetics becomes a direct-to-consumer product, it gets oversimplified and oversold," says Hank Greely, an ethicist and lawyer at Stanford Law School who specializes in genetics and biotechnology. Although it is relatively easy to determine African or Asian ancestry, it's more difficult to pinpoint roots in, say, the Ivory Coast or Sri Lanka. Accuracy will improve as genealogical databases acquire more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can DNA Reveal Your Roots? | 7/5/2005 | See Source »

...million Estimated number of people aged 15 to 64 worldwide who have used illegal drugs in the past 12 months; up 8% from the year before, according to a new United Nations report $322 billion Value of the global retail market for illegal drugs?bigger than the gross domestic product of 88% of the world's countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/4/2005 | See Source »

...Luckily with this movie, there weren’t very many negative reviews out there from serious critics. I was proud of the finished product long before any reviews came out. But the LA and NY Times both gave positive reviews to the film, which was just icing on the cake...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Josh H. Simon ’00 Fields Questions About Job as Studio Exec, Lohan Film | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

...York City (laaaame!) and embrace NASCAR stardom. She’ll be nothing like Matt Dillon’s preening cad. No, she’ll be the kind of celebrity who uses her fame to do noble things, like wear high heels and promote sponsors with the gratuitous product-placement that saturates “Herbie...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lindsay Lohan Vehicle Has Tank Only Half Full | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

Every since the Consumer Electronics Show last January, there's been a quiet race going on. Who will introduce the first wireless iPod headphones? The answer is Logitech, and the product is unquestionably sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Logitech Wireless Headphones for iPod | 6/29/2005 | See Source »

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