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To: SunkenCiv; blam

may be of interest


14 posted on 02/18/2011 10:32:41 PM PST by Tainan (Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
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To: Tainan
"May be of interest"

It is, thanks.

27 posted on 02/19/2011 6:25:37 AM PST by blam
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Thanks Tainan! This is pretty interesting! And I say that as a somewhat tall person...
The villagers are very small, generally less than three and a half feet tall, and have a rare condition known as Laron syndrome or Laron-type dwarfism. They are probably the descendants of conversos, Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal who were forced to convert to Christianity in the 1490s but were nonetheless persecuted in the Inquisition. They are also almost completely free of two age-related diseases, cancer and diabetes.
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29 posted on 02/19/2011 8:19:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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