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"It's surprising that the effects [of prenatal exposure] are so persistent," says Kimberly Gray, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Studies, which helped fund Perera's study. By following these children through age 11, she says, the Columbia team will be able to look for links...
Despite the absence of IM reps to pester summer residents for participation, the Secondary School and General Program have demonstrated surprising enthusiasm for these competitions. While the Straus Cup resides safely in 2009-champion Winthrop House, shielded from the influence of June and July results, summer school athletics director Lisa...
But with surprising speed, fear in Asia has swung back to greed as the region shows signs of recovery - and some economists are warning that asset-price bubbles that had been popped by the global recession may be reinflating. Property and stock prices are soaring in many parts of Asia...
"This is not all that surprising that this would happen to an African American man, and even to somebody of Skip Gates' stature," said James H. Sidanius, a psychology and African American studies professor whose area of study includes institutional discrimination and group conflict. "These things happen all too often...
Since JFK, who has a lot to answer for when it comes to the overvaluation of charisma, Americans have liked their leaders to be handsome or heroic, preferably with a thatch of dark hair and a trim waistline. It doesn't always work (otherwise Mitt Romney would be in the...