Word: craige
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...Magic Johnson, whose talk show has been ripped by critics and avoided by viewers, fired his sidekick, Craig Shoemaker. Does firing the No. 2 guy ever work...
...surfer and a hospital corpsman in Vietnam. He is a presidential adviser on germ warfare and a millionaire yachtsman who, in his 82-ft. sloop Sorcerer, won the first transatlantic race he entered. Indeed, Sorcerer is an appropriate name for a boat owned by J. Craig Venter, one of America's most high-profile biologists. For Venter has conjured up an audacious plan that has so shaken the world of science that it was the focus of a congressional hearing last week...
...than 100,000 "serious gaps"--regions where the fragments are improperly aligned. "Yes, you'll get a holey map," agrees Rockefeller University professor Norton Zinder, who was chair of the first Genome Project advisory committee. "But we will fill the holes." He anticipates substantial benefits from Venter's plan. "Craig," he says, "has jump-started the sequencing...
Late last week, his testimony completed, Craig Venter packed his gear, boarded the Sorcerer and prepared to compete in the Newport-to-Bermuda race. For Venter, this contest should be a cup of tea. Unlike his venture into the human genome, this will be a voyage into fully charted waters...
...worrisome is the fact that Christian Identity churches have begun springing up around Jasper, including one in nearby Burkeville. The ideology, which preaches that white people are the true Israelites, has moved in subtly. "They look for small autonomous country churches with no debt and a bank account," says Craig. "They fire the pastor, they get tax status and what looks like the Shady Grove Baptist Church; well, they are singing Amazing Grace and then saying Sieg Heil." Killing in the name of religious and racial purity is within the moral contract of Christian Identity, say experts. Authorities last week...