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...imagine how a random mutation might have produced a path of light-sensitive cells that helped a primitive creature tell day from night. You can also imagine how another mutation might have bent this patch of cells into a concave shape that could detect the direction a light or shadow was coming from-helping creatures with the mutation stay clear of predators. Simple structures that enable an organism to do one thing-follow the light-can easily get co-opted for a different and more complex function, like sight. The fact that there is no fossil evidence of the interim...
Hossein Rahimi does not wear a beard, not even the ten o'clock shadow de riguer for even the casually pious. He prays five times a day and bemoans what he calls "social corruption," but gels his hair, listens to Eminem, and doesn't look away when pretty girls pass. And that's not exactly typical of an activist of the basij, the clerical regime's volunteer paramilitary force tasked with enforcing its strictures on personal and social behavior...
...will accelerate the emergence of new strains of supergerms, making everything from common diseases like pneumonia to routine surgery more dangerous. "Drug resistance overshadows everything," says Dr. Stuart Levy, president of the Boston-based Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics. "It's almost a disease in itself, a shadow epidemic...
...arguments before them. "He's more prepared than any nominee in living memory to move right in and act like he's been there for a while," notes John McGinnis, a law professor at Northwestern University in Chicago. "For a while, it's going to be like having a shadow litigator up there. He's going to be very sharp at finding the weakness of their cases...
...former Armstrong lieutenants, desperate to escape his mountainous shadow, could soon reach the Champs Elysées podium. Floyd Landis, 29, who was never even allowed to race a bike as a kid, stood sixth overall through 14 stages (out of 21) in this year's Tour. He grew up without a television or radio in a Mennonite household in Pennsylvania, and he needed permission from a pastor to wear racing tights in public. Landis still won't conform. After riding shotgun for Armstrong on the U.S. Postal team for the past three Tours, he jumped to the Swiss Phonack squad...