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...when Hunkapiller showed Venter his new ABI Prism 3700, a sequencer five times as fast and even more highly automated, Venter formed a partnership with Hunkapiller's company, Applied Biosystems (now PE Biosystems). Venter named his new outfit Celera, from the Latin for "quick." It was. Backed with an infusion of $300 million from his new collaborator, Venter boldly announced that he would sequence and assemble the entire human genome by the year...
This account is disputed by Adjua Abi Naantaanbuu, a Memphis barber who acknowledges cooking dinner for Abernathy, King and his assistant, Bernard Lee, on the evening in question. She contends that Abernathy, having fallen unconscious while drinking, occupied her bedroom until about 3:45 a.m., when she and King put an ice pack on his neck to wake him. Said she: "If there was any sex going down in my bedroom, it was by Abernathy himself." The former Kentucky lawmaker, Georgia Powers of Louisville, was at the Lorraine Motel that night but declined to comment...
Regulation time was drawing to a close when right halfback Abi Azikiwe's long pass outdistanced the referee and was picked up by Crimson right wing Gerry Montero. Montero fed Vargas in the middle, and the inside from Colombia drove the winning goal past Greenberg, who again was advancing in vain...
...Abi Azikiwe may start at right halfback with Captain Joe Gould, who can play either side of the fields, available to spell Azikiwe and left half Mike Sicher...
Munro will have starting left halfback Abi Azikiwe and goalie John Axten in better shape than they were against Princeton. "After their injuries, they both played fairly well," Munro said. "But they should be stronger this week...