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...unemployment now tops 10%. Also last year, the previous Socialist Prime Minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, resigned following years of controversy that began when he admitted that his party had lied about the state of the economy before 2006 elections. "[Jobbik] is a protest movement," says Laszlo Csaba, an economics professor at Budapest's Central European University. "And without strong ideological or organization glue, I think they'll have trouble staying together." (Read about Europe's march to the far right...
...called Joanna Mountain, Ph.D., 23andMe's senior director of research, so she could teach me how to brag more effectively. Mountain explained that Cassandra and I had each contributed an equal number of chromosomes to Laszlo's genome but that I possibly had a greater influence on the 583,000 genetic markers that 23andMe has decided are more significant...
Unfortunately, Mountain informed me, no one has yet mapped the gene for awesomeness, but she was able to look up a bunch of stuff. And when she looked more closely at the data, she discovered that the traits Laszlo inherited from me kind of sucked...
...assumed I was genetically gifted, since occasionally I'm asked to be on television. But it so happens that because of me, Laszlo has an increased chance of suffering macular degeneration and psoriasis. And while Cassandra's genetic marker for nonverbal IQ is three points higher than average, Laszlo and I are just normal. "We're starting to get a sense of who's to blame," said Mountain...
...think you get a more beautiful and genetically superior baby," she said. "I was hoping for a black guy, but I got a Jew." Right then I felt grateful both for Cassandra and for the fact that she didn't put that in our wedding vows. I just hope Laszlo didn't inherit her mouth...