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...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. I feel good about finding another...
Growing up in Appalachia in the 1950s, Brent Kennedy always believed that he was of English and Scotch-Irish descent, just like everyone he knew in his hometown of Wise, Va. But when he saw the film Lawrence of Arabia in 1962, he noticed that his family looked more like the Arabs in the movie than the British. Kennedy had inherited his father's light blue eyes, but he had his mother's black hair and in the summer would get a deep tan. He had heard a story about his great-grandfather being barred from voting in the early...
...handling of affirmative action. O'Connor was as allergic to quotas as any true conservative, but she found it acceptable for government to consider race as one of many factors in making decisions. In the late 1980s she wrote an opinion striking down a law in Richmond, Va., that tried to boost the minuscule percentage of city contracts going to minority-owned firms. And in the '90s, O'Connor voted against redrawing the lines of congressional districts to benefit minorities. But she was also the Justice who cast the fifth and deciding vote in a 2003 decision upholding the right...
Veterans needing medical treatment after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, four times the number the Veterans Administration (VA) had budgeted for this year...
Portion of the $1 billion shortfall in the VA's budget--which Congress scrambled to cover last week--attributed to those two wars...