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...genes are active in a given tissue sample; sophisticated software that can organize gigabytes of genetic data; huge databases of genes, disease-tissue samples and mRNA--the molecules that initiate the actual construction of working proteins. "The announcement of finishing the genome is to us a mini-event," says Allen Roses, worldwide director of genetics for Glaxo Wellcome and a prominent Alzheimer's researcher. "We've been making use of the information as it has become available, and we've already done some proof of the concept that finding genes for disease and developing the right drug for the right...
...same tank where Spencer Tracy sailed in The Old Man and the Sea 42 years ago). In front of a blue screen, mounted on a gimbal, the Andrea Gail tossed and turned while the actors (in addition to Clooney and Wahlberg, the boat's crew includes John C. Reilly, Allen Payne, John Hawkes and William Fichtner) employed their craft amid wind machines and torrents of pelting water. Meanwhile, just up the California coast at ILM headquarters in San Rafael, near San Francisco, animators awaited footage so it could be digitally plugged into the computer-generated storm...
...What about the troubles you had shooting at the Warners Studio tank? I heard Karen Allen got banged around pretty severely there and other actors got bumped and bruised...
...Bilbao. Located at the foot of that beloved American knickknack, the Seattle Space Needle, the EMP is an "interactive" rock museum costing $240 million (more than $100 million for Gehry's building, the rest for the museum installed within it). The money comes by way of Paul Allen, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder, who has his own rock band, a lifelong thing for Seattle native Jimi Hendrix and enough cash to indulge his pleasures in a big way. There may be no bigger way to do that than to hand yourself over to Gehry, whose work is the pleasure principle...
...last letter I received from my husband, 1st Lieut. Dean B. Allen, who served in the Army infantry, was one of those you featured. Unfortunately, the caption with his photo gave the wrong hometown for Dean. It was I who was from Voorheesville, N.Y.; Dean grew up in Delmar, N.Y. I'm sure the people in Delmar would appreciate having it identified as the hometown of one of their own who paid the ultimate price in the service of his country. JOYCE A. HALLENBECK Columbia...