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Mental illness isn’t funny, and neither is the problem of those who claim it is. We can’t make mental illness go away, but a lack of sensitivity to the suffering it causes is both inexcusable and highly avoidable...
...know, four days after 9/11, we give [them] the war plan on Afghanistan. Here are the guys that do A. Q Khan. Here are the guys that do Libya. Here are the guys who [the White House] sends to see the [Saudi] Crown Prince anytime there's a problem. And now what you've done is, you know, it's all going to shit. It's not particularly good, so now we're going to justify this by saying - I have to tell you, it's just enormously, you know, you live with it for the rest of your life...
...Sing Now” brings a serious moral theme into focus—marriage and life aren’t perfect, so all you Gen-Xers out there need to appreciate your thirties while you can still skinny-dip. Someday you really will be old. The problem is, no matter where the script turns, the plot is frivolous. It’s a funny movie, but it’s uncomfortably lodged between the patently ridiculous and the irritatingly straight-faced. “Sing Now” carries a strong summer-camp feeling of petty drama. But beyond...
...problem is money: decoding a genome is still too expensive. Today, the cost of is about $1,000 for a one-thousandth of the so-called “coding regions” of DNA, that is, DNA that actually codes for proteins. This already represents a huge drop in cost from the HGP, which finished in 2003 and cost $3 billion. The $1,000-threshold is important, says professor of genetics George M. Church, because at that point it becomes economical for many individuals to have their genomes sequenced. Church’s lab develops less expensive sequencing technologies...
...Compounding the problem, I am told by someone close to Hizballah, is that Syria does not have complete control over Iranian arms stores it holds for Hizballah. Some arms and explosives are finding their way to the Sunni insurgency, possibly with the complicity of individual Syrian intelligence officers or the Syrian regime...