Angry men get ahead; angry women penalized

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According to a new study, presented on Friday.A man who gets angry at work may well be admired for it but a woman who shows anger in the workplace is liable to be seen as "out of control" and incompetent.

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Swiss scientist says: hlamydia Screening Programs Don't Work .

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That's especially true for so-called "opportunistic" programs, which routinely test patients for chlamydia whenever they seek medical care.Population-wide screening programs for chlamydia, the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease, may not actually work, a Swiss expert contends.

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Genetic wonders

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What saved a man’s life was genetic engineering of the immune system. Cells were taken you’re your body, given a gene that programmed them to attack melanoma cells and then re-implanted. The modified cells survived and thrived, and slowly destroyed his tumours. This survival proves the approach can sometimes work wonders - and soon….

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Researcher discovers hybrid speciation in the Sierra Nevada

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Their genetic work is what really clinched the hybrid angle, University of Nevada, Reno researcher Matthew Forister is among a group of scientists that have documented an unusual type of speciation in the Sierra Nevada, including a hybrid species of butterfly that can trace its lineage as far back as almost a half a million years ago.It is said that their genetic work is what really clinched the hybrid angle.

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