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...authors of the new study, a team led by Dr. Bahman Guyuron of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, are plastic surgeons who study faces for a living. They analyzed photographs of the faces of 186 pairs of identical twins taken at the Twins Days Festival, a sort of twin-pride event held every summer in (naturally) Twinsburg, Ohio. Because the pairs had identical genetic material, differences in how old they looked could be attributed entirely to their behavioral choices and environment. Guyuron's team had the twins fill out extensive questionnaires about their lives - everything from how many times...
...identity as a leader almost as many times as he has stunned with his exotic outfits and female bodyguard. Nor has his rule been without controversy; Gaddafi’s four-decade-long tenure has seen the imposition and removal of sanctions and several high-profile incidents with Western nations, most notably the Lockerbie bombing of 1988, which saw a Pan Am plane explode over Scotland, killing hundreds of innocent civilians...
...Western countries...are not only the enemies of Pakistan but in fact of Islam.'' " - New York Times January...
...President Barack Obama and his counterparts in the western hemisphere are serious about improving the dysfunctional dance known as U.S.-Latin American relations, they need only look at what transpired in Ecuador this weekend. President Rafael Correa rather petulantly expelled a U.S. diplomat on Saturday. He did so because the diplomat rather high-handedly sent Correa's national police commander a letter saying the U.S. was pulling $340,000 in aid to Ecuador's anti-drug cops, because Correa decided last year not to let Washington have a veto over who runs that force and even who works...
...ruling party in the Palestinian Authority's legislature, and whose security control of Gaza remains intact despite the Israeli offensive - is in no position to take charge of reconstruction on the ground. But a unity government with Abbas at its helm could provide the loophole that would allow Western donors to help Gaza rise from the rubble...