Men: Are you feeling moody? Having hot flashes? It turns out that one-third of men experience these menopausal symptoms, according to Swedish researchers. But there’s good news: you no longer have to blame yourself for your beer belly, since it?s the fault of your genes.

Scientists believe a protein called CGRP is responsible for menopause symptoms in both men and women. CGRP expands the blood vessels, causing sweating and hot flashes, and its effects increase when levels of both male and female sex hormones?testosterone and estrogen?decrease.
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In Tamil Nadu, on India’s East Coast, geneticists Spencer Wells and R.M. Pitchappan have found strains of genes that were present in early man when he first left Africa 60,000 years ago. When these first humans came to that part of India, some of them decided to stay and their progeny are still there today. “These gene pools are unique and very accurately map the path a population has taken, leaving behind original communities to grow into independent groups but with a common ancestor,” says Pitchappan.
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The U.S. and U.K. sold Saddam Hussein the technology and materials needed to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction, according to reports by the U.S. Senate.

Under the successive administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Senior, the U.S. sold anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and botulism to Iraq until March 1992, as well as germs similar to tuberculosis and pneumonia. Other bacteria we sold them are brucella melitensis, which damages major organs, and clostridium perfringens, which causes gangrene.
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