Word: dna
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Although listening to the DNA testimony in the Simpson trial has been about as gripping as counting bricks, someone has seen a TV show in it. CBS has ordered a script for a drama series based on defense DNA experts Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld's legal practice and clinic. The lawyers are reportedly writing the script now--gee, does O.J. know?--so the show can be ready next year, in time to combat Simpson-trial withdrawal symptoms. GO, SAYS...
...high concept," says Spielberg. All right, concept: Island. Theme park. Dinosaurs. Adults swallowed whole. Kids in peril. Easy. But who said the author had to give us the history of computers along with it? And chaos theory? Fractal vs. Euclidean geometry? And the workings of a Stegosaurus gizzard? And dna? So much dna it's a wonder Crichton hasn't been called as an expert witness in the O.J. trial...
Prosecutors have said their rebuttal case will take five days, but that seems highly optimistic, given a potential witness list of 59--from photographers who took pictures of Simpson wearing the leather gloves to DNA experts to Dr. Don Dutton, who according to Clark has conducted a study on "pre- and post-homicidal conduct of murdering spouses," to a flight attendant on Simpson's flight to Chicago. The defense has already found much to contest on this list. Still, Ito keeps trying to keep things moving. At one point, the judge sternly warned the lawyers, "Delay is something that will...
...permafrost meat locker. Many believe the present-day Yakutian horse is itself a throwback to the era of the ice ages. With such conflation of past and present, it seems almost reasonable when one Russian ecologist, Sergei Zimov, suggests that a "Pleistocene Park" could be established using the DNA magic of its Jurassic movie counterpart. Some scientists believe the mammoth could be brought back by inserting readily available, naturally refrigerated mammoth DNA into an elephant embryo...
...company of Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Mahatma Gandhi, but this was my son's third-grade class biography project, titled Who Am I?, and an understanding teacher had allowed him to portray his favorite baseball player, a preference passed down like DNA from both his mother and his father. "I was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, in 1931," said this child born in New York City in 1986, "and my father named me after his favorite player, Mickey Cochrane. I grew up in Commerce, Oklahoma, and later became known as the Commerce Comet...