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...genes, like all genes, are switched on and off in different parts of the body at different times. In this way, genes can have subtly different effects, depending on where, when and how they are switched on. The switches that control this process--stretches of DNA upstream of genes--are known as promoters...
...Sullivan said. “Their ability to pass the ball inside out, make the extra pass, and even beat you on the dribble with the spot-up guy, really leaves you as a defensive player with your head spinning a little bit. You’re just running upstream in terms of getting good solid closeouts to them. Our perimeter defense has been decent for most of the year but I don’t think it was as effective tonight in terms of slowing them down...
...dying fast. Ask about food and the villagers say that, born in the year the rains first failed, Saifudden has never tasted fruit, vegetables or meat. Ask about water and their anger boils over. "They're killing us here," says Akbar, pointing over the horizon to the lush plains upstream. "They're taking all the water. I haven't seen water in our ditches for four years. And all for chaars...
...hash farmers shot dead a man who walked all day to demand two buckets of water. And in Saifudden's village of Dalicharbolak, the men there admit that after 12 people died of malnutrition over the summer, some among them gunned down two cannabis growers who were hoarding water upstream. An hour's drive to the east of Dalicharbolak, a village headman says his is the only settlement out of 38 nearby that has potable water?in effect, a single half-meter-wide well must provide for 60,000 people. The headman claims that anyone is welcome...
...Perhaps the starkest illustration of what cannabis is doing to Afghanistan is to be found at the village of Deh Naw, half an hour to the north of Mazar along Afghanistan's main north-south highway. Just out of sight of the hash hills upstream, the desert is swallowing Deh Naw whole. Five-meter-high sand dunes have crashed over the village's mud walls like desiccated tidal waves, burying houses, blocking streets and suffocating the vines and the mulberry, fig and pomegranate trees that once blossomed here. The 600 villagers survive by gathering desert thornbushes?used for lighting fires...