Friendly to the Extreme Rare Condition Brings an Unforgettable Personality Genetic Disorder Makes Kids Extra Social Intelligence experts tried stop government exaggerating Iraq dossier documents reveal NIH awards Salk Institute $5.5 million grant study Williams syndrome How Syndrome May Affect Your Life Studies Show Smoking Affects Both Mental Physical Health

Williams Syndrome is a rare genetic condition -- so rare, in fact, that few people have ever heard of it. Of about 7,500 newborns, only one will have it. But that one, should you ever meet him or her, will likely have a personality of unforgettable ebullience and warmth. It is the type of personality seen only occasionally beyond the world of Williams Syndrome. Williams Syndrome kids have health problems but also lack social inhibition. Papers support claims that Iraq dossier was meant to make a case for war Newly released documents reveal the full extent to which defence intelligence experts fought – with limited success – to prevent the Labour government exaggerating the September 2002 dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The disclosure follows the revelation last week that a senior defence intelligence officer told the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq conflict that, contrary to the evidence of former government communications chief Alastair Campbell, the dossier was intended to make a case for war and intelligence had been exaggerated to make this case. The new documents support these claims and longstanding allegations that the dossier was hardened up against the wishes of the intelligence community. The disclosure consists of more than 150 pages of communications from the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) during the process of drafting the dossier. In addition, the Cabinet Office, which produced the dossier, has disclosed a further batch of documents from the DIS and others offering comments during the final stages of drafting. The documents include an email from John Williams, the Foreign Office press secretary at the time, describing a revised draft dossier as persuasive ... (_Salk Institute_) A multi-institutional team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been awarded a $5.5 million Program Project Grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to link social behavior to its underlying neurobiological and molecular genetic basis using Williams syndrome as a model. Learn how Williams syndrome may affect your life. Three new studies about cigarette smoking show it is more harmful than previously thought
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