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...much higher chance of carrying an error or mutation than an egg, especially among older men. "While it used to be that men had many children in older age to many different women, now men tend to have only a few children at a younger age with one wife. The drop in the number of older fathers has had a major effect on the rate of mutation and has at least reduced the amount of new diversity - the raw material of evolution. Darwin's machine has not stopped, but it surely has slowed greatly," Jones says. (See TIME's special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darwin Lives! Modern Humans Are Still Evolving | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...can’t simply pass a law telling the resources to go from the wealthy to the local population,” said Robert Seidman said, who, like his wife, is a professor at Boston University Law School. “Although Non-Governmental Organizations and education can facilitate improvement as well, the state is the nation’s largest employer in most of the nations in which we’ve worked,” he said. “Legislation is the clear way to enhance and solidify these changes...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scholars Propose Legislation | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...details of Barnett’s professional pursuits often escaped Karine, his wife of eight years, who said she had not known about the bulk of his accomplishments until she read his obituaries. Karine recalled a different Steve—a peaceful and quiet presence in the home...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Law Professor, Alum Dead at 73 | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

Barnett is survived by his wife, Karine, their son, Alexander, 5, and his stepson, Levon...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Law Professor, Alum Dead at 73 | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

Call it China's trial of the 21st century. Not since Mao Zedong's wife and her fellow members of the reviled Gang of Four were tried in 1980 has a courtroom trial so captured the attention of the nation. For one thing, there's the sheer scale of the operation that brought more than 30 defendants to court this week: a crackdown on the alliance of criminal gangs and their corrupt official collaborators who have terrorized a huge metropolis for years. Thousands of suspects were questioned, some 1,500 were arrested, bribes in the tens of millions of renminbi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Underworld on Trial in Chongqing | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

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