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BOSTON--Thirty years from now, human cells may be modeled on computers, medicine may be custom-tailored to each person's genes and humanity will be confronted with the possibility of genetically modifying its children because of the nearly completed sequencing of the human genome...
BOSTON--Thirty years from now, human cells may be modeled on computers, medicine may be custom-tailored to each person's genes and humanity will be confronted with the possibility of genetically modifying its children because of the nearly completed sequencing of the human genome...
...custom-designed database...
...this specificity of purpose, says William Seltzer, an expert in demographic statistics at Fordham University, that provides the most damning evidence. "Microsoft is not responsible for every spreadsheet made with Excel," Seltzer told TIME.com. "But if someone is doing custom designing of a database, they have to know what's going on. With these punch cards, Dehomag had to design a card for every piece of new information that the government wanted...
...black art that carried him far. When he was packed off to Phillips Academy, where sarcasm (irony's nasty little sibling) was the only language spoken, Dubya crafted derogatory nicknames for classmates; but defying custom, he would use them to their face. Such was his cool-guy swagger that he was apparently able to pull this off, if for no other reason than nicknames imply recognition, not nothing in the adolescent struggle for selfhood. And as he attracted new descriptors for himself, like Lip and Tweeds, it was surely during this period that Bush gave nicknaming a permanent place...