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...usually follow assassinations with explanations. The country's deadliest group, the Revolutionary Organization 17 November, is religious about ringing 929-6001 and notifying the Eleftherotypia, an Athens daily, of the whereabouts of its proclamations. But on the night of June 8, that decades-old practice took an unconventional twist. Fourteen hours after gunmen pumped four bullets into Brigadier Stephen Saunders, Britain's top military envoy to Athens, 17 November rang the cell phone of an Eleftherotypia staff writer. Apparently the terrorists were aware that police had, for the first time ever, tapped the newspaper's telephones. "If this leak...
...scientists at Gene Logic and other firms--Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Massachusetts and Glaxo Wellcome (both in England and the U.S.) are just two examples--are putting together databases of tissue samples to look for one-letter genetic differences. (These differences are formally known as single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs.) Fourteen drug companies and the philanthropic Wellcome Trust (not affiliated with Glaxo Wellcome) organized an SNPs consortium last year to begin building a publicly available SNP database. Both the Human Genome Project and Celera are currently sequencing the genomes of many different people, of both sexes and all sorts of ethnic...
With yesterday's 3-2 defeat at the hands of Vermont, the Harvard baseball team has now dropped four straight games, as well as eleven of its last fourteen...
Classmate T.J. Sevier, meanwhile, has held opposing hitters to a .231 batting average, the lowest among pitchers with at least fourteen innings of work...
After that point, however, Madden settled into a groove, retiring twelve of the next fourteen batters he faced...