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> > And now for news from the genetic twilight zone
We all know how evolution occurs: during the multitudinous molecular busywork of dividing and splicing, somewhere some random genetic blip crops up. The mutation most likely has no effect, or it may provide an advantage and even become the point at which a new species splits off.
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> > The tyrant within
This February Mark Lilla sat on a New York University panel about 9/11 and was shocked to hear a fellow panelist, the French intellectual Jean Baudrillard, "offering his fanciful take on the attack as a [symbolic] suicide by the towers." Lilla recalled the moment recently while keynoting a U of C Women's Board luncheon. "An act of suicide by the towers-because of the evils of capitalism and globalism and despite the loss of life-was actually, according to this respected intellectual, a predictable thing."
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> > Remission for Crohn's patients
Receiving regular infusions of an antibody called infliximab can prolong remissions in patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease, reports Stephen Hanauer, a professor of medicine.
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Citations
> > Reading magazines may cause lung cancer
Despite a ban on cigarette advertising directed at children, U.S. tobacco companies have actually increased youth targeting. Paul Chung and Craig Garfield, both Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars at the Pritzker School of Medicine, reported in the March/April Health Affairs that while tobacco companies obey FDA advertising limits in "youth magazines"-those with more than 2 million readers under age 18 or with more than 15 percent young readers, including Sports Illustrated and People-they have instead increased ad placement in magazines with youth readership just under those limits, such as Glamour. Cigarette ads in such magazines have increased by 14 percent since the 1998 FDA ban. "This finding," Garfield says, "reinforces the need to consider a ban against tobacco advertising in magazines like the bans in existence for TV, radio, and billboards."
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