Trace elements: Reconnecting African-Americans to an ancestral past

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The Washington, D.C.-based company, which compares client's DNA with that of ethnic groups living mainly in West and Central Africa, is aiming to recover the family ties destroyed by the slave trade. By tapping into the continent's high genetic diversity, the approach might overcome the difficulty of interpreting DNA markers shared across populations on the continent.

United States, Analysis, African Americans, Genetic aspects, Biological diversity, Biodiversity

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Dialing in: Mobile phones target the world's nonreading poor

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The article illustrates how mobiles are useful to the tech savvy but has very little place in the lives of non-literate people. The mobile company Motorola decided to solve this problem by introducing 'Motofone' which has three basic features 'calling', 'managing numbers' and 'simple text messaging'.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Marketing procedures, Product introduction, New Products/Services, Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Cellular Mobile Tel Equip, Targets & Markets, Cellular telephones, Wireless telephones, Telecommunications equipment industry, Motorola Inc., Wireless telephone, Wireless voice/data device, Target marketing

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