Word: customizer
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Doing it in monkeys, however, could save lives. For more than a decade, researchers have been working with so-called knock-out and knock-in mice--rodents that have had genes added or effectively subtracted from their genome. By observing these custom-made lab animals, researchers have gleaned invaluable information about the workings of hundreds of illnesses, including arteriosclerosis, sickle-cell anemia and nearly every variety of cancer that afflicts people...
Lewis said he's not quite set either, noting that the desk now in his office--custom-made for John B. Fox Jr. '59, the tall former dean of the College--is too high...
...Radio Me: a station that knew my likes and dislikes so intimately, it could offer me new music that would hit my groove each time. This concept being something of a holy grail in the digital-music world, there has been an explosion of websites that offer music custom-made for you--among them radio.sonicnet.com (owned by MTV's online division), tuneto.com and mongomusic.com But be warned: most can be wrong as often as they are right...
...works like any other CD burner: hook it up to a PC, and you can back up your hard drive, store digital images or burn MP3s onto a blank CD. When you're ready to roll, it turns into a portable CD player for store-bought CDs or the custom-made ones you burned yourself. You won't have to be embarrassed to carry this in your pocket. --By Jyoti Thottam
...amount of sleep could soften an unsigned opinion tossed over history's transom like a ransom note penned by Kafka. You have to wonder if the Supreme Court, instead of reading election results, is now in the business of making them. The court warned that its ruling was custom fit: "Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances...equal protection...generally presents many complexities." You bet it does: like flawed machines that disproportionately failed to record legally cast votes in inner-city precincts. Or the purging of voter rolls by a firm hired by Bush's brother that disproportionately disenfranchised...