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...thorough job of severing their African roots. Washington-based African Ancestry aims to re-establish these links by telling its customers whether their DNA matches that of any of hundreds of ethnic groups in Africa, from the Hausa in northern Nigeria to the Ashantis in Ghana. For Juanita Thompson, a real estate agent in Arlington, Va., the test had special significance because her mother had been adopted as an infant and her birth family was unknown. "There was always a void," says Thompson, 61. "Having this DNA test gave me a connection to my mother's side of the family...
...satisfying as it was for Thompson to be told that her mother's family descended from the Yorubas in Ghana, it is exactly this kind of precision that has critics fuming. "I think it is a disgraceful thing to try to tell an African American that you can match them to any group in Africa now," says Bruce Jackson, a geneticist at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and co-director of the African-American DNA Roots Project, a nonprofit research group that is digging into the genetic history of American blacks. Jackson says making such classifications is premature because...
...Maine went for Bush in 2004, and of those, all but Virginia and Maine have at least one Democratic Senator whom the group will try to characterize as out of step with his or her constituency. Progress for America has lined up conservative celebrities, including former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson of Law and Order fame, to publicly endorse the nominee...
...military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy toward homosexuals? If that's what the fall has in store, then maybe there's no choice but to bring on the long, hot summer. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr., Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper, Viveca Novak, Amanda Ripley and Mark Thompson/ Washington and Cathy Booth Thomas/ Dallas
...Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, who have signed up dozens of co-sponsors. It's not that legislators love the media. But when it comes to advancing their politics, legislators can be world-class leakers and could have as much to lose as journalists. --With reporting by Mark Thompson and Viveca Novak/Washington and Nathan Thornburgh/New York