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Batterson: It's really just more alphabet soup. Look, all I would need is a major medical plan that I could get at a reasonable cost. And then if my employees needed some other benefits to cover the hangnails, we could give them that in additional salary and compensation, and they could handle it. I think it could be really simple...
None of us so privileged few who first saw the double helix in the spring of 1953 ever contemplated that we might in our lifetime see it completely decoded. All our dreams at the time centered on the next big objective--finding how the four letters of the DNA alphabet (A, T, G and C) spell out the linear sequences of amino acids in the synthesis of proteins, the main actors in the drama of cellular life. As it turns out, the essence of the genetic code and of the molecular machinery that reads it was solidly established...
Despite some accounts likening his accomplishment to finding biology's Holy Grail, Venter points out that identifying the order of the letters in our genetic alphabet is just a first step. Still ahead for Celera as well as its competitors: the much more complicated task of telling what those letters mean, what they do and what can be done if the messages they spell out are in error--a prime cause of human disease and suffering (see following story...
...somewhat dreamy father Saul, the cantor at Beth Simcha synagogue, sees Eliza's skills with the alphabet as a sign that she is a "mystical prodigy" and begins training her for spelling competitions and for greater, more spiritual challenges ahead. "What do you and a Torah scribe have in common?" he asks her, and then answers when she falters: "Both spelling bees and Torah scribes share the idea that a word should be constructed perfectly...
Tune in to ABC at the start of the Republican and Democratic national conventions on July 31 and August 14, and you'll see grown men smashing heads and dragging each other to the ground. No, it's not the Reform party - it's Monday Night Football! The Alphabet Network has decided to go with two preseason games rather than the traditional prime-time coverage of democracy's twin infomercials, consigning the political action to halftime...