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...will be. Venter has acknowledged that Celera's will contain some gaps, especially in the so-called repeats--long stretches of DNA with virtually identical sequences. Genome Project scientists once argued that because they have an easier time sequencing the repeats, their finished map would be more complete and error-free. They have since discovered that many regions throughout the chromosomes are unreadable even with their technology, and they are now forced to acknowledge that their product will have large gaps as well...
...imitate the weather in running to extremes: Thus, for example, we insult the past by overestimating the present's enlightenment and wonders, denigrating much of what came before; or else, reversing the error, we insult the present by imagining it to be dramatically worse (more depraved, for example, more satanic, even) than the past was. I'll have the best of times, please, but if those are not available, make it the worst of times...
...ALMOST THERE. SOME DEBUGGING NEEDED SYSTEM ERROR. 59 TO 0 REBOOT BEFORE GOING TO NEXT CENTURY...
...embossed symbols of the Morse code produced what he later described as "a light, musical, rhythmical sound, resembling human talk heard indistinctly." If it was possible, he reasoned, to "hear" dots and dashes, might not the human voice be reproduced in a similar manner? After much trial and error, Edison gathered a small group of witnesses and recited "Mary Had a Little Lamb" into a strange-looking contraption. The spectators were amazed to hear the machine play back Edison's high-pitched voice. The phonograph was born...
Print journalists who appear frequently on TV have a phrase they use after they say something silly or make a factual error. "It's just TV," they shrug, and you can understand the attitude. The conventions of the TV talk show, circa 1999, inflate the trivial and trivialize the important. Watching Hardball's Chris Matthews bark at his guests about tax plans and sex scandals, you wonder why his guests don't cover themselves with dentist's smocks to fend off the flying spittle. Kinsley recalls that as co-host of Crossfire, the CNN shoutfest, he once disagreed with...