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High-Achieving Genes
One way to overcome your own mortality is to produce a dynasty.
That's what Genghis Khan did, and did with astonishing success. An estimated 16 million men today, plus an uncounted number of women, are his direct descendants.
Closer study revealed that this marker probably originated in Mongolia roughly 1,000 years ago, plus or minus three centuries.
Khan was born around 1162 in Mongolia, and in his forties he began a campaign of conquest, ultimately creating an empire stretching from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific.
Irish geneticists have discovered a marker carried by one in five men from northwestern Ireland. They also noticed something else these men shared in common: their last names.
traditionally thought to have been founded by a fifth-century warrior known as Niall of the Nine Hostages.
Instead of natural selection, they experienced historical selection.
Prescription medicines are fast becoming the world's high of choice, opening the door to deadly counterfeits.
VIENNA, Austria - Abuse of prescription drugs is about to exceed the use of illicit street drugs worldwide, and the shift has spawned a lethal new trade in counterfeit painkillers, sedatives, and other medicines potent enough to kill, a global watchdog warned yesterday.
In the United States, the abuse of painkillers, stimulants, tranquilizers, and other prescription medications has gone beyond "practically all illicit drugs with the exception of cannabis," with users increasingly turning to them first, the Vienna-based group said in its annual report.
Buprenorphine, a painkiller,
the painkillers oxycodone, sold under the trade name OxyContin, and hydrocodone, sold as Vicodin
flunitrazepam - a sedative sold as Rohypnol and widely known as a "date-rape drug" -
the narcotic fentanyl - 80 times as potent as heroin -
Cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan hit a record high last year,