FOXP2 may be the gene that makes us human - or so the hype goes. Hyped or not, FOXP2 is rightly a focus of intense research, since it is a gene that clearly has a major effect on human speech. Mutations in FOXP2 are responsible for some rare but strange language disorders, such as the inability to learn grammatical skills or make the proper mouth/facial movements to properly articulate words. 

"Somebody's got to stand up to experts," cried the creationist head of the Texas State Board of Education, Don McLeroy. McLeroy's lament is nothing new in American culture - we love to lionize the artless hero who conquers the world through clean living and common sense, and without resorting to elitist expertise. (Although some see the pendulum swinging the other way.)

WASHINGTON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Next step toward deploying biometric exit procedures for international travelers

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today began collecting biometrics - digital fingerprints and photographs - from non-U.S. citizens departing the United States as part of a pilot program at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Since 2004, biometrics have helped DHS prevent the use of fraudulent documents, protect visitors from identity theft and stop thousands of criminals and immigration violators from entering the United States.

NEWARK, New Jersey, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Migration Factory Process Borne Out of Proven Experience of Migrating Many of the World's Largest Corporations

Binary Tree announced today the application for a patent for its 'Migration Factory' process which enables large organizations to migrate up to 10,000 users a week from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange. This patent-pending process utilizes Binary Tree's award-winning CMT for Exchange software and a field-proven migration methodology to migrate over 10 terabytes of messaging data and up to 10,000 users a week from geographically dispersed locations.

LONDON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Actix, the leader in Network Status performance engineering and optimization solutions, is announcing new support capabilities for HSPA+/Evolved within Actix Analyzer and Actix Spotlight solutions.

Actix is now able to deliver HSPA+/Evolved troubleshooting and optimization capabilities within all elements of its Analyzer, Spotlight, Radioplan and Actix One solutions.

Already established as the industry standard for both analysis and performance engineering, Actix software is constantly being extended to cover the newest technologies, and offers the broadest set of interfaces to third party data through a library that covers hundreds of different vendor formats.

The key issue in considering competition is the question of whether changes in resource availability or mates would alter the confrontation. If the answer is negative, then no competition can be said to have occurred. The mere existence of confrontation does not necessarily denote competition.



So in considering competition the definition will be focused specifically on the conditions whereby two individuals engage each other in some confrontation for a specific and separate resource. To that end, one of the individuals will end up acquiring that resource while the other is either eliminated or goes elsewhere.



However, in a general sense, it is useful to consider first how competition actually manifests itself.

HOUSTON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (NYSE-Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV) will participate in Oil and Gas Investment Symposium London hosted by the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) on Tuesday, June 2, 2009. The event will be held in conjunction with Credit Suisse's London Oil and Gas Conference.

J. Michael Kirksey, executive vice president and chief financial officer, is scheduled to speak on the company's business strategies and operational plans at 10:30 a.m. British Summer Time. A web cast of the presentation will be available by accessing Endeavour's Internet home page at http://www.endeavourcorp.com.

CALGARY, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Addax Petroleum Corporation (Addax Petroleum or the Corporation) (TSX: AXC and LSE: AXC) announces that, further to the dividend declaration in the news release issued on May 13, 2008, the dividend record date has been changed to Monday, June 8, 2009. The dividend payment date of June 18, 2009 remains unchanged.

PARIS and LES ULIS, France, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- The French International tennis tournament, held at Roland Garros from 24 May to 7 June 2009, will be the scene of the first ever application of Microsoft's IIS7 Live Smooth Streaming technology (beta version), encoded on Inlet Technologies' Spinnaker(TM) 7000 live streaming platform and distributed on Level 3 Communications' Content Delivery Network (CDN), for high-quality, streamed live broadcasts on the Web.

PARIS, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that, according to data from Infonetics, it is now the #1 vendor in the IP edge router market in the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region with almost 31 percent market share. During Q1 2009, Alcatel-Lucent increased its market share in the worldwide IP edge router segment, strengthening its #2 position globally with 20 percent share.