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...quantum physics. Stepping boldly outside his field of expertise, Schrodinger argued that one of life's essential features is the storage and transmission of information--that is, a genetic code that passes from parent to child. And because it had to be both complex and compact enough to fit inside a single cell, this code had to be written at the molecular level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Twist Of Fate | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...there remained the problem of how to fit the bases together. Watson kept trying to do it by pairing like with like--an A attached to one backbone linked to an A on the other. Chemically, it would work. The bases were different enough in size and shape, though, that this scheme led to either a gap between bases or misshapen backbones. Worse yet, when Watson happened to show his idea to Jerry Donohue, an American crystallographer doing a stint at the Cavendish, Donohue informed him that the bases came in more than one chemical form. Watson was using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Twist Of Fate | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...think we will also see more personalized medicine--knowing your own genome and being able to choose what part you want to look at and what part you don't. I can't imagine we will be in a complete Utopia. Utopia doesn't fit our personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Future Visions | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...mentor and promoter, with an eye toward a future payday. "He was really patient with me," says 50, who was questioned by police following Jay's murder but is not a suspect. "I would come in with rhymes, almost free verse, and he explained that they had to fit 16 bars of music. Once he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rap's Newest Target | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...California. After expenses, the business brings in from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, according to Kafka. "We wanted to supplement our income. Retirement money doesn't earn that much in the stock market today," she says. "This is a great, fulfilling way to keep busy, productive and fit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Over | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

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