In this Midwestern U.S. city replete with knowledge, all homes face the sun and have on their peaks a golden embellishment reminiscent of a genetically remarkable ethnic population of nine skies. What is the Midwest city?

queproblema

In Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, named after the Sanskrit word “Veda,” meaning “knowledge," all the buildings face east and each is topped with a golden roof ornament called a "kalash." http://www.maharishivediccity-iowa.gov/ The Kalash people of Pakistan are an ethnic group descended from the Greeks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash Jul 04 09, 12:42 AM

edmund80

Excellent job! Also: "These people (the Kalash) are said to descend from the soldiers of Alexander the Great, stranded and established in foreign lands. Kalash people call the peak of the mountains with a word that does not require explanations: Olympus. The discovery in the '80s of Greek inscriptions in a former Kalash area in Afghanistan further came to strengthen this opinion." http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kalash-The-People-of-the-Nine-Skies-81140.shtml "In a 2005 study of ASPM gene variants, Mekel-Bobrov et al. found that the Kalash people of Pakistan have among the highest rate of the newly-evolved ASPM haplogroup D, at 60% occurrence of the approximately 6,000-year-old allele. While it is not yet known exactly what selective advantage is provided by this gene variant, the haplogroup D allele is thought to be positively selected in populations and to confer some substantial advantage that has caused its frequency to rapidly increase, perhaps imbuing cognitive or behavioral abilities related to non-tonal languages and alphabetical scripts. The Kalash also have been shown to exhibit the exceedingly rare 19 allele value at autosomal marker D9S1120 at a frequency higher than the majority of other world populations which do have it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash#Genetic_origins Jul 04 09, 3:31 PM