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POPSConverting DNA Structures into Music Highly complex DNA structures can be tranformed into musical sounds, which might eventually be used to monitor sick patients. In the acoustic translation, harmony represents good health, and discord indicates disease. Finally auditory information will allow surgeons, anesthesiologists, and other physicians to be able to focus on their task and listen at the same time.
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POPS Recession Q&A: What It Could Mean To You Q: Are we in a recession or about to enter one? A: We won’t know for sure unless the NBER announces it, and that would likely be long after the fact. (It did not decide the last recession began in March of 2001 until November of that year.) So far, GDP has yet to shrink. But there are some things that are common to most recessions that are present now. Read the full Q&A. A recession in 2008 isn’t official yet. But with unemployment rising and stocks falling — including a 4% drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average last week — many economists, including former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, say the U.S. is probably in a recession. What does that mean exactly? And what does it mean for investors? Here are answers to some key questions.
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POPSEarly Puberty For Girls
Marcia Herman-Giddens at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US, who first noted the declining age of puberty in US girls in a landmark 1997 study, says the findings are further cause for alarm. There are huge health and social complications,” Herman-Giddens warns. “Imagine being eight or nine years old and having men hit on you because you have breasts. Grown women have enough trouble dealing with unwanted sexual advances – imagine being in the fourth grade.” She adds that girls who start puberty early do not do as well in school, are more likely to be depressed, and engage in early sexual activity an alcohol use. She notes that other factors, including girls growing up without their father in the home, lack of exercise, and endocrine disruptors - chemicals common in pesticides - could also be playing a role in the early onset of female puberty. Previous studies have also shown that early puberty leads to increased rates of reproductive cancer later in life.
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