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PROVO, Utah (AP) -- This week's insert of Sports Illustrated on Campus has been left out of the Brigham Young University student newspaper because it contained pictures of bare-bottomed runners. BYU was among more than 70 college campuses selected by Sports Illustrated as test markets this fall for a new magazine aimed at college students. When it contacted BYU, officials of the school owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made it clear there would be no beer, no tobacco and no "racy presentations," said Jim Kelly, general manager of NewsNet, the school's combined student newspaper, Web...

Gene leads to big bottoms A single gene could explain why some people have larger bums than others. Experts in the US have discovered a mutated gene which leads to some animals boasting "unusually big and muscular bottoms". Researchers from the Duke University Medical Centre, in North Carolina, hope the genetic mutation will explain how muscle and fat is deposited in humans. They described the discovery in sheep as "especially exciting", saying the unusual gene has evaded all traditional means of detection for nearly a decade. The gene has been named "callipyge" - which translates as "beautiful buttocks" in Greek...