Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Schultz is currently working to expand the genetic code from the naturally occurring 20 amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, to well over...
Cambridge city code requires that buildings must be allocated one parking space per 1,000 square feet. Gifford said Harvard "double-counts" its parking space by assigning the same parking lot to more than one building...
...days, a company looking to fill a job selectively would call an employment agency and simply say, "Don't send me any blacks." That kind of discrimination is illegal now, but some companies still find ways of using code words to avoid job applicants on the basis of race, sex and age. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission caught Interplace, a Los Angeles employment agency, in the act. In the largest such suit to be settled, Interplace has agreed to pay $2 million for using a complex set of signals to screen out workers for its clients. Some 3,900 victims...
...than 100,000 genes crammed into the human genome, the strand of DNA in the nucleus of each of the body's 100 trillion cells (with the exception of red blood cells, which have no nuclei). And scientists will have sequenced, or placed in order, the 3 billion chemical code letters in that strand, giving them the ability to read nature's complete blueprint for creating a human being. As the project nears completion in the first decade of the next century, knowledge flowing from it will begin to have a major impact on medicine and other sciences, industry, agriculture...
...first, I merely was amused to recognize from my espionage reporting days that almost all the gadgets portrayed--with the possible exceptions of the high-mathematics all-code breaker--actually exist, and are available comercially...