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Man’s Genes ‘Key To Baby’s Sex’

A man’s genetic make-up may play a role in whether he has sons or daughters, a study of hundreds of years of family trees suggests.

Newcastle University researchers found men were more likely to have sons if they had more brothers and vice versa if they had more sisters.

They looked at 927 family trees, with details on 556,387 people from North America and Europe, going back to 1600.

The same link between sibling sex and offspring sex was not found for women.

The precise way that genes can influence baby sex remains unproven.

But the Evolutionary Biology study could clear up a long-standing mystery – a flood of boy babies after World War I.

While a woman will always pass a female “X” chromosome via her egg to her child, the father effectively “decides” the sex of the child by passing on either another “X” in his sperm, making a girl, or a “Y” chromosome, making a boy.

While the birthrate is almost 50/50, suggesting that overall men will deliver equal amounts of “X” sperm and “Y” sperm, scientists have suspected that in some individual couples the balance is shifted in favour of either boys or girls.

Various explanations have been put forward for this, ranging from differences in the time in the woman’s monthly cycle that sex happens, to the amount of time that sperm spend waiting in the testicles.

The Newcastle study, by Dr Corry Gellatly, is strong evidence that there is a genetic component.

He found that within families, boys with lots of brothers were more likely to have a higher number of sons themselves and those with lots of sisters were more likely to have lots of daughters.

War babies

Dr Gellatly said it was likely that a genetic difference affected the relative numbers of “X” and “Y” sperm within those produced by the man.

This gene, while only active in the man, could be carried by men and women.

“The family tree study showed that whether you’re likely to have a boy or a girl is inherited.”

He said that the effect was to actually balance out the proportion of men and women in the population.

“If there there are too many males in the population, for example, females will more easily find a mate, so men who have more daughters will pass on more of their genes, causing more females to be born in later generations.”

In the years after World War I, there was an upsurge in boy births, and Dr Gellatly said that a genetic shift could explain this.

The odds, he said, would favour fathers with more sons – each carrying the “boy” gene – having a son return from war alive, compared with fathers who had more daughters, who might see their only son killed in action.

However, this would mean that more boys would be fathered in the following generation, he said.

Best Crime Of The Century:12 of 25

THE SON OF SAM, 1977

New York seemed to be going to hell in the summer of 1977. Already in perpetual fiscal crisis the city was plunged into a 25-hour blackout on July 13 that saw massive looting and arson. And the Son of Sam killer was still out there after more than a year, waiting to kill again, sending his perverse missives to the police and to New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin. The killer had called himself the Son of Sam in his letters, which spoke of Papa Sam as a drinker of blood and master of Satanic mayhem. And on July 31, the Son of Sam struck again, shooting a young woman, who was killed, and her male companion, who would be blinded. But it would be the last attack. A witness on the night of that shooting saw a man in the neighborhood remove a parking ticket from a Ford Galaxie. The police tracked their records and found 24-year-old David Berkowitz, a dweeby, pudgy employee of the U.S. Postal Service. Trained as a sharpshooter with the M16 rifle in the U.S. Army, he had used a .44 pistol in all the shootings, killing six and wounding seven. Who was Sam? Sam, said Berkowitz, was a cantankerous former neighbor. But Berkowitz said he was the devil and that he transmitted his orders through the infernal and incessant barkings of his dog, Harvey.

Actor Brad Pitt Visits New Orleans Project,Updated

Actor Brad Pitt has visited the New Orleans neighbourhood where families are moving into six homes built by his charity following Hurricane Katrina.

The star said he was pleased for them, but was thinking of those people who have yet to settle into new houses.

“The excitement is that it’s being proven, but the frustration is that it’s a long way to go,” he said.

Pitt’s Make It Right foundation is planning to build 150 eco-friendly houses in the area devastated in 2005.

‘Rich home’

The actor says it is “amazing” that the city’s Lower 9th ward, which was one of New Orleans’ most deprived areas, is destined to become one of the largest green neighbourhoods in the US.

One of the residents, Inez Converse, said she is pleased to have returned to the neighbourhood she lived in for 35 years before Katrina struck, and thanked Pitt in person.

“He didn’t have to do this. I’m just grateful that he is,” said the 71-year-old.

Later on Tuesday, Pitt appeared on NBC’s Today programme and said spoke about the six children he has with partner Angelina Jolie.

“It’s a rich home, and each one of them offers so much to the mix,” he said, but added: “Six kids is not as easy as you’d think.”

When asked if he and Oscar-winning actress Jolie would consider marriage, he said: “If we feel it’s important to our kids, we’ll do so.”

The couple have a home in New Orleans which was recently refurbished to accommodate their growing family.

On Monday night, a special screening of Pitt’s latest film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took place in the city, where it was filmed.

Pitt has called the movie “a love letter to New Orleans”.

California ‘Faces Budget Crisis’,Governer Arnold Schwarzenegger

The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has declared a fiscal emergency, amid fears the state could run out of cash by early next year.

He has ordered lawmakers to hold a special session to tackle the $11.2bn (£7.5bn) deficit in California, one of the world’s biggest economies.

Across the US, state tax revenues are down because of the economic slump.

State governors are to meet President-elect Barack Obama later on Tuesday to press the case for federal help.

Governor Schwarzenegger on Monday invoked powers allowing him to declare a fiscal emergency as the new state legislature was sworn in.

“Without immediate action, our state is headed for a fiscal disaster,” Mr Schwarzenegger said, saying that the current $11.2bn shortfall could swell to “a staggering $28bn” over the next 18 months.

“I compare the situation that we are in right now to finding an accident victim on the side of the road that is bleeding to death,” the Republican governor told a news conference in Los Angeles.

“We wouldn’t spend hours debating over which ambulance we should use, or which hospital we should use…No, we would first stop the bleeding, and that’s exactly the same we have to do here.”

He said the state was already drawing up plans to lay off public employees.

Spending cuts

Under the fiscal emergency, lawmakers have 45 days to pass legislation addressing the budget crisis. If they miss the deadline, 15 January, they have to stay in session without considering any other business until agreement is reached.

The previous state legislature failed to reach agreement on a series of spending cuts and tax increases.

However, the elections in November produced little change in the legislature’s political make-up, with the Democrats three seats short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass fiscal measures.

“It’s our job as legislators working with the governor to try to make a major dent in the problem, and we can only do so by cutting expenses and by raising addition revenue,” the Senate president, Democrat Darrell Steinberg, told the BBC.

But Republicans indicated their continued opposition to both Mr Schwarzenegger’s and the Democrats’ proposals.

“This is not blind ideology on the part of Republicans, but our sincere belief that higher taxes will hurt the economy and lead to more uncontrolled spending,” Republican minority leader Mike Villines said.

Governors from across the US are set to meet Mr Obama later on Tuesday in Philadelphia to discuss ways of tackling the budget shortfalls many states are experiencing.

“Without federal help…what we will have to do is just make continuing cuts and/or raise taxes, both of which would have further deleterious effect on our states’ economy. We simply need help,” Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said.

But as he left for the National Governors’ Association meeting in Philadelphia, Mr Schwarzenegger said he would not be asking for federal help until California’s lawmakers addressed the budget crisis.

“The federal government shouldn’t give us a penny until we straighten out our mess and we can live within our means,” he said.

US Carmakers In New Bail-Out,Ford,US Congress

Ford has asked the US Congress for a $9bn (£6bn) bridging loan in case it gets in financial difficulties.

In return, it pledged to reduce its boss’s pay to one dollar a year should it have to use the emergency loan.

General Motors and Chrysler are also presenting their new cost-cutting plans to Congress to try and get $25bn (£17bn) in emergency loans.

The Detroit Three need to make more concessions to secure the much-needed government bail-out.

Ford also said it would sell its five corporate jets as part of its cost-cutting plan.

Other measures could include selling some businesses, such as Swedish carmaker Volvo.

Ford said a $14bn investment was needed in new technologies in the next seven years in order to improve fuel efficiency.

But it is also seeking an emergency bridging loan from the US government in case it got into financial difficulties.

“Ford is asking for access to up to $9bn in bridge financing, but reiterated that it hopes to complete its transformation without accessing the loan should Congress agree to make the funds available,” the carmaker said in a statement ahead of a hearing in Congress.

Ford said it expected to return to profit, or at least break even, by 2011.

But the White House has already expressed scepticism about the plans.

“We are sticking to our guns that the companies have to prove that they are viable before taxpayer dollars should be given to them,” said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.

Avoiding criticism

The company’s heads decided not to use private jets to get to Washington this time to avoid criticism.

GM chief executive Rick Wagoner and Chrysler head Robert Nardelli are expected to arrive to Washington by commercial flights or use other means of transport, while Ford chief executive Alan Mulally was said to be driving a Ford hybrid car from Detroit.

GM has warned it could run out of cash in a matter of weeks and cannot wait until President-elect Barack Obama – who may be more sympathetic to industry pleas – is sworn in in January.

The company was left with $16bn in cash at the end of September after losing $6.9bn in the previous three months.

But Republican critics and some Democrats say the financial crisis is not the only reason why the biggest US carmakers are in trouble.

They say that the Ford, GM and Chrysler’s production was inefficient, and that their labour costs were higher than many of their foreign rivals.

Other critics want to make sure that the Detroit automakers adopt more environmentally friendly policies, including strict fuel efficiency targets, in return for government aid.

The union representing the autoworkers, the UAW, is reportedly considering renegotiating their union contracts.

Two Congresses

Most analysts think that GM is “too big to fail”, while Chrysler is the most vulnerable of the Detroit Three and might be forced into a partnership with stronger rivals.

The three carmakers Tuesday’s presentations precede hearings in Congress later this week.

According to sources familiar with the carmakers’ plans and statements from the companies, GM may consider selling off its Pontiac, Saab and Saturn brands, while Ford could sell off its Volvo luxury brand.

They may also move to consolidate their sprawling dealer networks.

The lame-duck Congress could vote on a bail-out plan, or could delay consideration until the new Congress, with a much bigger Democratic majority, takes office on 6 January.

The Bush administration has offered to accelerate the payment of some $25bn in green investment credits already allocated to the car industry, but this has been opposed by Democrats in the House of Representatives.

Israel Buries Mumbai Attack Dead

Thousands of mourners bid an emotional farewell in Israel to Jewish victims of the Mumbai attacks.

Large crowds gathered for the funerals of a rabbi and his wife, who ran the Chabad House Jewish cultural centre in the Indian city.

Those present included President Shimon Peres, Defence Minister Ehud Barak and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

Six Jews died at the centre, which was one of several places targeted in the attacks that left 188 people dead.

The victims’ bodies were flown to Tel Aviv on an Israeli air force flight early on Tuesday.

They include four Israelis, one US citizen and one Mexican.

‘Why, why, why?’

At the Chabad headquarters in Kfar Chabad, a village near Tel Aviv, around 10,000 mourners thronged the main square for the funerals of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his wife Rivkah, 28.

The two bodies, wrapped in blue and white prayer shawls, were laid out on a podium.

Many mourners had tears streaming down their faces as a rabbi delivered a eulogy asking: “Why, why, why?”

The couple’s two-year-old son, Moshe, survived the attack. He was found crying next to their bodies by his Indian nanny, Sandra Samuel.

She hid in a cupboard when the centre was attacked, but emerged to rescue the child after his parents were killed.

Ms Samuel was given a passport at the last minute and travelled to Israel with the young boy and his grandparents for the funerals.

The Israeli foreign ministry was said to be considering granting Ms Samuel the status of “Righteous Gentile” – one of the highest honours Israel can bestow on non-Jews – which would allow her to remain in Israel for some time.

The Holtzbergs will be buried on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives.

Bitter homecoming

In Mea Sharim, an ultra-Orthodox enclave in Jerusalem, thousands of people mourned Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum, a 38-year-old US citizen who lived in Jerusalem.

Mr Teitelbaum was in Mumbai last week supervising the preparation of kosher food.

A funeral was also held for Mexican citizen Norma Schwartzblatt-Rabinowitz. The mother-of-two had been planning to move to Israel to live with her daughters, media reports said.

Earlier, a brief ceremony was held at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv as the flag-draped coffins arrived.

Among those on the Israeli air force plane were the parents of Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, who had attended an emotional ceremony at a Mumbai synagogue on Monday.

“The house they built here in Mumbai will live with them,” Rivkah’s father, Shimon Rosenberg, told about 100 mourners at Keneseth Eliyahoo synagogue.

“They were the mother and father of the Jewish community in Mumbai,” he said. “The House of Chabad will live again.”

The Chabad centre was stormed on Wednesday evening by armed militants who seized hostages and fought a gun battle with Indian commandos.

Indian forces eventually regained control of the centre, killing several gunmen, but six of the hostages were found dead.

‘Saving Money With Sex’, Britons

As the credit crunch bites, Britons may be turning to sex as a cheap way to pass the time, a charity says.

A YouGov survey of 2,000 adults found sex was the most popular free activity, ahead of window shopping and gossiping.

The Scots were most amorous with 43% choosing sex over other pastimes, compared with 35% in South England.

Aids charity the Terrence Higgins Trust, which published the survey, also welcomed recent figures showing an increase in condom sales.

Around one in 10 respondents to the survey, carried in November, said their favourite free activity was window shopping and 6% chose going to a museum as the cheapest way to pass the time.

But the sexes differed on their priorities, with women preferring to gossip with friends while men had sex firmly at the top of their list.

Safe sex

Publishing the results to coincide with World Aids Day, the Terrence Higgins Trust reminded people to practise safe sex and pointed out that a packet of condoms costs a fraction of the cost of a night out.

Lisa Power, head of policy, said: We’re glad that people are finding ways of relieving some of their credit crunch woes, but if there’s one thing it’s worth forking out for, it’s condoms.

“Alternatively you can get them free from family planning and sexual health clinics.

“Rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections are on the up so when you snuggle down with a partner, make sure you do it safely.”

Rebecca Findlay, from the Family Planning Association advised: “If anyone’s having more sex at the moment whatever the reason, do think about your contraception, your condoms and any testing you might need for sexually transmitted infections.

“And you can get all of these for free on the NHS.”

Apple Pushes Anti-Virus,Fresh Threat

Apple has urged Mac owners to use anti-virus software.

In a note posted on its support site in late November, Apple said it wanted to “encourage” people to use anti-virus to stay safe online.

The move is widely seen as a response to the growing trend among cyber criminals of booby-trapping webpages that can catch out Mac users.

Before now Mac users have been largely free of the security problems that plague Microsoft’s Windows.

Fresh threat

The support note recommends that Mac owners install one or more of three anti-virus products.

Advice on the site said: “Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.”

Apple recommended users try McAfee VirusScan, Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 11, or Intego VirusBarrier X5.

The vast majority of malicious programs circulating online are aimed at Microsoft’s Windows, largely because the software is used by so many people.

A handful of viruses have been written that targets Mac’s OSX, but most have been demonstration versions only and few have had any significant impact on Apple users.

One virus, known as AppleScript.THT, could take control of a Mac and grab screenshots or keystrokes.

However, in recent months, hi-tech criminals have signalled a change in tactics away from e-mail borne viruses. Instead, many are infiltrating popular webpages in a bid to infect the machine of any and every visitor.

Many seek to steal valuable information such as login names, passwords or game accounts instead of trying to install themselves on a machine.