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Plowing through church records and birth rolls will only get you so far in reconstructing your family tree. For the really deep stuff, you must look to your genes, and Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford, is there to help you. His company, Oxford Ancestors (motto: "We put the Genes in Genealogy"), can identify portions of your DNA that chronicle an unbroken chain of descent back to the Stone Age. All it takes is a swab from the inside of your cheek...
...years old and my parents went to bed two hours ago. I hunch over my dimly lit desk and squint as I pull tiny gun turrets from the sprues of a plastic-parts tree. My room smells of Testor's model glue. I will eventually get so delirious from inhaling the fumes and struggling to assemble this 1/700-scale model of the aircraft carrier Akagi that I will pass out at my desk...
...this could be simple. Colby did say "my only loyalty is to Tina." (after his mom) and Keith is clearly starting to lose it. He seems to spend his days either lolling against a tree and muttering, or going on long hikes to contemplate death and redemption "if my legs hold out." He sounds like he's ready...
...residential system. Until then, Masters answered the same questions of responsibility, but at least they could expect to preside over the well-being of a constant, predictable group of students—be they the athletes of Kirkland House, the pre-meds of Quincy House or the tree-hugging, bongo-thumping environmentalists of Dunster House. Community spirit, at some base level, was inherent to House life by nature of common association...
...Saturday, was loud, sweet and a great relief to everyone. At Whidbey Island in Washington State, home base for the squadron, thousands gathered on a crisp spring afternoon to welcome the crew. It was one of those unblemished moments of American patriotism. Navy bands let loose. Under a budding tree, three little girls bedded down for a nap beneath an unfurled American flag. Lieut. Shane Osborn, the pilot who brought the crippled plane safely down, touched a tear from his eye as he walked off the plane and into a heroic cacophony of cheers and music...