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...become one of the standard methods for rewriting nature's codes. Pellets coated with DNA are fired into the chromosomes of a plant that biotech engineers wish to alter in some amazing way. Then, after patient cultivation to bring out the inserted trait, a prodigy is born. The transformed crop may be corn or cotton with a built-in insecticide, tomatoes that retain their fresh-picked texture on the shelf, or wheat with extra gluten, making for lighter, bouncier bread. The new crop of doctors has been so busy re-enacting the Creation in the past few years that Americans...
...Here's another color for you: Red, as in ink, which is what Apple had been spilling in the years before interim CEO/messiah Steve Jobs returned to the orchard. Now he has a bumper crop: Apple announced it has sold more than 800,000 iMacs in the computer's first five months. The company will now turn a profit for the 5th straight quarter, and the stock price, which was languishing at around $12 a share when Jobs came back, closed at a robust 43 Tuesday. Healthy enough so that the next color might very well be pink...
...enthusiastic about the new officers and the future of HCS. "The computer society is at a point where there's the potential for a lot of good to be done for the society and by the society," Bodell said. "We've had a very, very successful new crop of individuals getting involved in the organization, so from that I think we'll springboard a lot of new ideas, initiatives and projects...
Most of the charges aren't true. But the voluminous notes the FBI kept on Sinatra make us wonder what we will have to look forward to when the current crop of celebrities bites the dust. Somewhere squirreled away in a Washington file cabinet lie the secrets in Dennis Rodman's closet; the dark mysteries of Celine Dion and the true story of Leonardo DiCaprio. Until those yellowed files to see the light of day, we can only speculate what, in the words of the FBI, "Association with Criminals and Hoodlums" our favorite stars may have...
...arrange and edit pictures. The new Avicor Album ($300) from Avicor, in Los Gatos, Calif., lets you create digital photo albums right on your TV. Just plug the camera into a VCR-like device (or insert a disc with images), then use the included remote control to crop, zoom, delete and arrange pictures...