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Gut bacteria may be the missing piece that explains the connection between diet and cancer risk.

The first in her family to go to college, Jocelyn Nadeau entered Smith College intending to major in psychology.

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Swiss anthropologist Jeremy Narby counts himself among the relatively thin ranks of scientists willing to publicly announce their conviction that nature is "minded," that an intelligence lies behind the development of life. Such a position is heresy to the prevailing scientific view of naturalism, which holds that nature is self-sufficient and the result of undirected processes. These two differing viewpoints usually are framed in the context of a debate between theology and science--creationis