Word: dna
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...ancient predicament, can anything new ever happen? Sure it can. Proposing to tell God himself that he has no right to treat you unjustly was once a big advance (see Book of Job). So were trial by jury and the right to remain silent. So were fingerprinting and DNA evidence. So was the electric chair...
...really depressing thing about Koogle's admitting he's not up to the task of turning Yahoo around is that it suggests the job needs someone with even more business acumen. Short of cloning Bill Gates or unearthing the DNA of Henry Ford, that's going to be one tough search. So envy not Jim Citrin, managing director of executive-search firm Spencer Stuart, whose job it is to seek a replacement. "We're looking for a great leader, a motivator," Citrin says. "Less someone with a particular industry background, and more of an athlete...
...elephant has stepped on his chest four times, and on mine twice. Cheney has had one multiple-bypass operation; I have had two of them. We have both had angioplasties, with stents. A couple of years ago, I drew ahead of Cheney in the fancy-therapy category by having DNA injected into my myocardium in order to induce the growth of new vessels--angiogenesis, a still experimental but highly promising technique that has, in my case, worked miraculously well...
...have been feeding on them can still be tested for drugs or poisons. Anderson does the analysis herself, but in most cases she depends on police to collect the specimens--which means training the officers to do it properly and thoroughly. "One maggot doesn't help me," she says. DNA technology promises greater advances in her field. Recently, the FBI matched a suspect to his dead rape victim by the blood contained in a single louse that had migrated from...
According to Claudia Mickelson, chair of the National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, citizens should be aware of the evidence used in forming government policy...