Word: chimp
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...This chimp is excited because...
What's next? To get a fuller racial and gender mix, Venter will go through at least six more human genomes, probably including his own ("Why not, if that's the business I'm in?" he asks, admitting nothing). After the mouse, he'll probably go on to the chimp, among our closest primate kin, and explore plant genes, including rice and corn. He is also taking Celera into the emerging field of proteomics--understanding how genes make and manage proteins, the actual building blocks of life...
...scene with a professional eye. He concedes that Marbury is a wimp. He praises Alice for her social graces. And he calculates that for the moment, Christopher and Siena, dervishing through the terrible twos, are less articulate, less mentally developed, than a reasonably accomplished chimpanzee or bonobo (pygmy chimp), each of whom would easily outdistance the twins in communication skills, memory and complex consciousness of the world around them. So: Should the chimps, who possess better minds, have some of the legal protections that the twins, by birth, enjoy...
SIDESHOW Josh and his chimp Tarzan, street performers near Harrah's casino...
...size doesn't matter, catch a street act called Josh (the trainer) and Tarzan (a six-year-old chimp) on the sidewalk near Harrah's. Tarzan does somersaults, a nifty impression of Dolly Parton and the only Vegas striptease whose last article of clothing is a diaper. At the end he cadges tips. Save some quarters from your slots stash...