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...have known for at least a decade that hundreds of animal species - including birds, reptiles, mollusks and, of course, humans - engage in same-gender sexual acts. But no one is quite sure why. After all, same-sex couplings don't usually result in offspring. (I say usually because when male marine snails pair with other males, one partner conveniently changes sex, allowing for reproduction.) Evolutionarily speaking, homosexuality should have disappeared long...
...billion budget shortfall, which it must resolve by July 1, the state is on the brink of financial disaster, and ripples from its fiscal collapse could adversely affect both the nation's economic rebound and, potentially, the Federal Government's credit status. The Republican governor and GOP legislators say they will not raise taxes, especially after Schwarzenegger and six Republican legislators joined a budget deal with Democrats in February that combined deep cuts and $12.8 billion in higher taxes. Now the budget shortfall has spiked again as state tax receipts have dropped 27% from a year ago. Democrats and advocates...
...signer on the state's borrowing. As with AIG, California officials argued, the state is too big to fail. "A fiscal meltdown by California ... would surely destabilize the U.S., if not worldwide financial markets," state treasurer Bill Lockyer wrote U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on May 13. Yet experts say such action by the Federal Government, while not a bailout, could possibly endanger the nation's AAA credit rating. Without short-term assistance, California could plunge deeper into chaos and become a drag on the nation's economic recovery. (The Page: "California Budget Deadlock Broken...
...confronted with the novel technology sometimes hesitated to convict based on genetic evidence - witness the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995, when the ex-football star was acquitted, in part as a result of doubts about the reliability of evidence based on blood found at the murder scene. But analysts say those doubts have eased as scientific know-how improves and the public becomes more familiar with the practice through TV and movies. (One example of its ubiquity: a toy DNA lab based on the CSI TV series is available at Amazon.com.) Authorities say new techniques allow them to successfully analyze...
...accuracy rises and costs drop, DNA analysis is becoming increasingly widespread. It's familiar to daytime-TV fans as the leading method to determine paternity; do-it-yourself tests are now sold at drugstores. Footballs used in the Super Bowl are marked with DNA to prevent counterfeiting; officials say there's just a 1 in 33 trillion chance of getting the pigskins' genetic sequence right. In recent years, DNA evidence has also been instrumental in identifying human remains. Authorities established a massive genetic database following the Sept. 11 attacks, and DNA science helped give closure to the relatives of victims...