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Venter, by contrast, took a more radical approach, smashing the DNA into millions of pieces, then feeding each into new high-speed robotic sequencers. By March 27, Celera had all of them read, though they will not be reassembled for three to six weeks. And lots more work remains to be done after that. Figuring out where those letters fall in our 100,000 or so genes, and precisely what each of these genes does, could take an additional 50 years...
...wackiest of the federal law-enforcement agencies. The tour ends in a mini-theater that plays those particularly gruesome antidrug TV ads that we're used to seeing these days, with troops of hollow-eyed addicts testifying to the dark side of drugs. It forms quite a contrast with the psychedelic posters and love beads in the head-shop window. And it's effective too, at least according to most of the kids on a recent visit. "You have to get their interest before you can give them information," said Brenda Harris, who brought the kids from her class...
...your broker or b) a bloodsucking vampire bat? Yes, the correct answer is b. Through trial and error over many eons, these bats have devised a market for blood that allows a bat to call on other bats when they find themselves with a temporary liquidity crisis. By contrast, when investors faced margin calls during the market free fall on Tuesday, brokers dumped customers' stocks, inflicting pain on clients and accelerating the downdraft. The vampire-bat comparison may be comical, but it points to a vulnerability of today's markets that should give pause to investors who play the market...
...contrast, most students meet with their non-resident advisers only occasionally, some as few as twice a semester...
...contrast to traditionalists, who study the law as a neutral institution, critical legal scholars say those with money and power manipulate the law to their own advantage. Law and economics scholars see the law as a way to achieve economic efficiency...