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Exactly what this means for people remains to be seen. Researchers have known that people with diabetes tend to have low levels of osteocalcin, but until now no one understood the significance. "This will open up a lot of new avenues for investigation," says Kahn...
...Brad was a wonderful academic adviser,” Viswanathan wrote. “I think that, because he was a Resident Dean, he understood fully the manner in which academic requirements differ across departments, and so he was always reassuring in his advice for what kinds of courses to take, given that none of his advisees was set on a concentration...
...Wendell Holmes Jr. said society could "prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind ... Three generations of imbeciles are enough." (Buck's mother and daughter allegedly shared her disability.) The Catholic Church condemned sterilization laws in 1930, but the political process backed science, as it was then understood. The mass murder of "unfit" individuals and ethnic groups by the Nazis gave eugenics a black mark that can never be washed off. But the issue marches on; in 2004 a eugenics supporter won the Republican congressional nomination in Tennessee's Eighth District (the GOP disavowed...
...This is a way foreign aid can really work: in small amounts, carefully administered, fostered by relationships of trust. It seems obvious. But only one sailor visiting the village understood...
...Speaking to crowds outside the AKP headquarters in Ankara, hoarse from the campaign trail, Erdogan called the result a victory for Turkey's democracy. He promised to continue with Turkey's E.U. membership drive, told secularist voters that he "understood them too" and, quoting Ataturk, said he would seek national unity...