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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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