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Last December he finally got some answers. After taking a $199 DNA test offered by DNAPrint Genomics in Sarasota, Fla., Kennedy was told he was 45% Northern and Western European, 25% Middle Eastern, 25% Turkish-Greek and 5% South Asian. "I felt freed," he says. "Suddenly there was an explanation for a lot of the shame and embarrassment in the family." As an adult, Kennedy had learned that his mother's family belonged to a mixed-race group called Melungeons who lived in the Appalachians. While their exact ethnic origins are unclear, Melungeons were united by their dark complexion...
...their roots--skeptics have raised questions about their accuracy. "When genetics becomes a direct-to-consumer product, it gets oversimplified and oversold," says Hank Greely, an ethicist and lawyer at Stanford Law School who specializes in genetics and biotechnology. Although it is relatively easy to determine African or Asian ancestry, it's more difficult to pinpoint roots in, say, the Ivory Coast or Sri Lanka. Accuracy will improve as genealogical databases acquire more samples, but many in this nation of immigrants and ethnic hybrids are happy to have even approximate answers to that universal question...
Summers, speaking in the Science Center, told a packed crowd that the rise of Asian economies and revolutionary changes in the life and medical sciences are two of the most important transformations occurring today...
...have the profoundly unique summer job of congressional internsorting mail, writing letters, and entering databut by night, I am a student learning the tricks of the trade. A few weeks ago, the prospect of free food lured me to a quasi-workshop event targeted towards Asian Americans being held in one of the House office buildings. The group that organizes these meetings aims to teach us leadership skills, so I was less than surprised to see that the first session would focus on the basics: networking...
...individuals from the administration and offices such as the SEO [Student Employment Office] and the Fellowships Office pressured for a review of the policy and also supported the student effort,” Dzambukira wrote in an e-mail. He said that among academic departments, the African Studies and Asian Studies committees were particularly supportive of the student group’s efforts...