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Last Friday the 13th: Doug Hope was relaxing at his home in Tucson, Arizona, when he received a call from Bob Saunders, a fraternity brother at San Jose State back in the late 1950s. "Doug, it's Friday the 13th, not a good day,'' Saunders, 68, told his old friend. "I've got only 90 days to live.'' Earlier that day, Saunders was being prepped for surgery at a hospital Ashland, Or., hoping doctors could remove an aggressive tumor in his brain. Julie Johnson, a classmate of Saunders at Willow Glen High School was driving on the freeway, when she took his...

JAMES WATSON, the DNA pioneer who claimed Africans are less intelligent than whites, has been found to have 16 times more genes of black origin than the average white European. An analysis of his genome shows that 16% of his genes are likely to have come from a black ancestor of African descent. By contrast, most people of European descent would have no more than 1%. The study was made possible when he allowed his genome - the map of all his genes - to be published on the internet in the interests of science. “This level is what you...