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...amber are a potential source of prehistoric DNA. Scientists have extracted genetic material from, among other things, a 17 million-year-old magnolia leaf, a 30 million-year-old termite and a 120 million-year-old weevil. Yet no serious biologist believes it will ever be possible to clone a dinosaur from a few bits of DNA. Even so excellent a preservative as amber apparently can't keep DNA from breaking down into fragments that may be scientifically interesting but are biologically inert. That's one reason many researchers doubt the claims of California scientists who announced last year that...
...campaign insiders--even the speechwriters and the imagemakers--could boast the writing talent to pull off a work of fiction that is the best aide's-eye view of politics since Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, published in 1946. Narrated in the voice of Stephanopoulos-clone Henry Burton (a tip of the hat to Warren's Jack Burden?), the novel captures with eerie precision the psychological bonds between the Clintonesque candidate (hyperambitious Southern Governor Jack Stanton) and his most indispensable adviser. Here is Burton, who is portrayed as the grandson of a Martin Luther King-like...
...prices for Apple's computers were high compared with the more competitive IBM-clone market, and the Mac found itself increasingly limited to the niches it now tenuously occupies: schools and desktop publishing. The rank-and-file computer buyer was less interested in exquisite engineering than in sticker price. Apple's share has dropped from about 15% of the personal computer market...
...whose decision to allow other manufacturers to copy its PCs made economic giants out of Microsoft and Intel, could become a clone maker itself. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple chairman A.C. Markkula said his company has asked IBM to make computers that use the Macintosh operating system. "The IBM name on a computer still means something to a lot of people, especially corporate buyers," says technology correspondent David Jackson. "A machine that would run the Mac O/S with the IBM label is viewed by most analysts as a great combination." IBM officials did not immediately respond...
...Director Skinner has those portraits of Clinton and Reno around because they are, respectively, the president and attorney general, not because Skinner's a rabid Democrat. Are we to assume that the aliens who stole Mulder's sister were also responsible for Clinton's victory? Is Hillary secretly a clone? Were the frogs dropping from the sky really DNC members...