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...screaming fry cook who has been burned and another plays a man who carries a bunch of heavy stuff but refuses his co-worker's help. "That's OK, I've got it," he says - right before tripping down a hill. (That's when we learned how to construct a sling...
...American Daydream, the fantasy of suddenly becoming enormously, improbably rich. If my experience is any guide, what Americans daydream about is not acquiring hundreds of millions of dollars themselves. For the average wage slave, a believable fantasy in which he becomes, say, a computer mogul is too difficult to construct, and making it at all persuasive requires him to imagine himself to be as dorky as computer moguls are. It's much simpler to daydream about inheriting money...
Before rushing off to the professional life that surely awaits me, I'd rather spend these summers in the only community I can truly call my own. There will be plenty of time later to construct a satisfying career...
...with similar functions--be they in insect, worm or man--often share structural characteristics that are reflected in the genes that encode them. Structural biologist Stephen Burley of Rockefeller University estimates that the maximum number of distinct shapes may be as few as 5,000. The NIGMS hopes to construct a lexicon of shapes--barrels, doughnuts, globular spheres, molecular zippers and so on--that when mixed and matched will spell the shape of any gene's product. About 1,000 of these structures--and the genes that code for them--have already been cataloged...
...when we construct the nonbiological equivalents of human neuron clusters, we will almost certainly include built-in, quick-downloading ports. When one computer learns a skill or gains an insight, it will be able to share that wisdom immediately with billions of other machines...