Word: clones
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...cuts and spending plans look as responsible as Gore's, if indeed anybody can pull that off. The Ohioan can also help in the Rust Belt, but Bush doesn't even have to spin it that way. He's always said how much he liked Al Gore as loyal-clone veep choice: If he's so confident about 2000, why not stand up in Philly and tell the world he's already tapped his 2008 successor? Voters might like looking ahead instead of feeling like they've got no other alternative to more Clinton/Gore than more Reagan/Bush...
...amplified Clinton. But for his own Veep, he may not want a mere clone...
...different genes, at the best guess). They were hieroglyphics to him, but not, he knew, to living cells, which recognize active genes and spin off single strands of RNA that mirror the DNA's coding. So Venter collected the new RNA, inserting it into bacterial cells and letting them clone junk-free complementary DNA, or cDNA, matching the original genes. His automatic sequencer could then read the letters of these genetic instructions...
...loved--and still love--my roommates from Holworthy 16, clone tendencies and all. But I realized quickly that I was not one of them. I was their babysitter...
SELF-REPLICATORS To build anything of any size, you need a lot of assemblers, and constructing them one by one is expensive and laborious. So most assemblers will need the additional ability to make copies of themselves. To make a skyscraper, for example, a handful of assemblers would first clone themselves into an army of trillions of tiny robots, then start building (see NIGHTMARE SCENARIO...