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Sacagawea is our mother. She is the first gene pair of the American DNA. In the beginning, she was the word, and the word was possibility. I revel in the wondrous possibilities of Sacagawea. It is good to be joyous in the presence of her spirit, because I hope she had moments of joy in what must have been a grueling life. This much is true: Sacagawea died of some mysterious illness when she was only in her 20s. Most illnesses were mysterious in the 19th century, but I suspect that Sacagawea's indigenous immune system was defenseless against...
Microsoft Word 2002 takes up 96 million bytes on a user's hard drive. The DNA equivalent of just 12 million bytes of compressed data, by Kurzweil's estimate, controls human brain development. Clearly, something other than size matters in the design of instructions...
This spring, Harvard dedicated the Bauer Laboratory, a building in which scientists will work on sequencing DNA. Meanwhile, a natural science building is in the planning stages...
...lead lawyer, Tony Savage, expects it will be 2004 before all the evidence is ready for a trial. Prosecutors have said they will be handing over a million pages in discovery. So far, Ridgway has said nothing from jail. Savage says they will fight the case by questioning the DNA evidence. "First we have to look at that DNA and make sure it was done right," says Savage. "If we get to the point where it is, then you ask, 'What does that show you other than he's a customer? With prostitutes, from the male point of view...
...mystery of the Green River Killer still has not been solved. The official Green River victims' list, from 1982 to '84, has 49 entries--45 names and four unidentified sets of remains. The DNA tests cleared the way for three of the charges; circumstantial evidence, the police claim, ties Ridgway to the murder of Cynthia Hinds. If Ridgway does get the death penalty, some wonder if the mystery will follow him to his grave...