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...fourth grade, my class held an Invention Convention. After a week of compiling lists of things that bugged us, each student created an invention to solve his or her greatest peeve. The most popular invention, of course, was some variant of the homework machine. I don’t remember what kind of overwhelming assignments we were dealt in fourth grade that necessitated such an appliance, but I do recall my classmates’ creations—elaborate boxes wrapped in shiny tinfoil, dotted with pretend buttons and adorned with assorted levers. These Willy-Wonka-esque machines did your homework...
...several years, fans if the swing dance variant from across Boston have flocked to the First Church of Cambridge auditorium every Monday night to meet, greet and dance their hearts out. And among the Monday night crowd mingle five men in red shirts with numbers stitched onto their chests...
...Harvard-affiliated Whitehead Center for Genome Research has started work with 14 other research groups worldwide to map variant genes thought to underlie common diseases like diabetes, asthma and cancer...
...worked to identify genes associated with disease and found that a genetic variant common in the human population increases the risk of contracting type 2 diabetes...
Indeed, some researchers have major reservations about the project for this very reason—questioning whether the HapMap approach can be useful in tracking down the variant genes involved in common diseases...