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...which is all but extinct today - Sales was the sweetest and goofiest performer. Outfitted in a sweater and bow tie, his elastic features sporting a nonstop smile, as if he were laughing at his last or next joke, Sales was a Mr. Rogers for kids who didn't watch PBS. Yet there was educational value to his work. Dipping deep into the stock of humor that had sustained stand-up comics from vaudeville and the Borscht Belt, he taught kids what was funny. (See a pictorial tribute to Jerry Lewis...
...human gene variations had become widespread in recent generations because of their modern-day evolutionary benefits. Among those genetic changes, discovered by examining more than 3 million DNA variants in 269 individuals: mutations that allow people to digest milk or resist malaria and others that govern brain development. (Watch TIME's video "Darwin and Lincoln: Birthdays and Evolution...
...life has its perks. He was due to party with Charles Barkley last year, winning two tickets to a bash hosted by the retired athlete as part of a grand-prize package in an online tournament. The loot also included airfare to Palm Springs and two tickets to watch a celebrity golf tournament. (He didn’t go, he says, only because his friends weren’t free to accompany him.) To Darkhawk, $8,000 dollars doesn’t seem like a lot of money anymore. “It’s all relative, I guess...
...least once last summer. Granholm said she told the officials that she wasn't going to be open to the idea "unless they could demonstrate this wouldn't put a target on Michigan. It'd be a difficult sell, politically." David Fathi, U.S. program director at Human Rights Watch in Washington, urges caution in the rush of states moving into the business of transporting prisoners. "There's a risk that conditions will deteriorate as corners are cut to make more money," he says. (See TIME's graphic "Detroit: Now a Ghost Town...
...many biotech firms, had long supported a 12-year exclusivity period. The industry showed its gratitude last year when Amgen, one of the biggest biotech firms, donated $5 million - twice the size of the next largest donation - to a nonprofit educational institute being built in Kennedy's honor. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...