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FEMININE MYSTIQUE As part of the 26th Annual Moose Dropping Festival July 11-12 in Talkeetna, Alaska, 15 women will compete in the Mountain Mother Contest, in which they must cross the Susitna River on stepping-stones while carrying two bags of groceries and a baby doll, then chop wood, change diapers and make a whipped-cream pie. Unofficial record time: under 5 min. Losers can always try their luck at the Moose Nugget Toss...
AILING. SHARI LEWIS, 64, the pixie-like puppeteer who gave life to Lamb Chop; with uterine cancer. The 12-time Emmy winner says she will continue production of her latest show, The Charlie Horse Music Pizza, during treatment...
Instead of assigning various segments of the genome to hundreds of scientists, as the Genome Project does, Venter plans to use what he calls whole-genome shotgunning. Essentially, he will put the entire genome in a dicer that will chop it into millions of segments. These chunks will be fed into 230 newly developed Perkins-Elmer robotic machines that will identify and sequence the DNA code letters in each segment. The company claims that they are 10 times more efficient than current sequencing machines and allow human operators to input in 15 minutes what used to take 24 hours...
...Korea employed to palaver with shoeshine boys and barmaids? Maybe committee investigators were told to keep their eyes out for a tape on which Bruce Lindsey says to Maria Hsia, a fund raiser prosecutors considered generous to a fault, "Listen, missy, you tell Charlie Trie boss needs money chop-chop...
...been warned about the dangers of Cambridge haircuts. She paid the price for her failure to heed the warning signals. She explains, "When I first went to college, the person that normally cut my hair said I should get it cut short [before I left] to avoid the chop-shops." Yeh refused to listen. Tragedy struck when, during her sophomore year, she got her hair cut at a to-remain-nameless institution in the Square. "It only looked right if I held my head at a 20-degree angle," she laughs. "There were two inches off one side and three...