Word: genes
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...During an appearance on Capitol Hill, lawmakers pushed him to declare their pet programs safe. Senator James Inhofe pressed Gates to protect the FCS program, whose high-tech cannon is built in Oklahoma, Inhofe's home state. "We have a nation where steel mills are shutting down," said Representative Gene Taylor, whose Mississippi district builds ships and who chairs the House Seapower Subcommittee and co-chairs the Congressional Shipbuilding Caucus. "I would ask you to encourage your acquisition folks to take advantage of these low prices." Shutting down the F-22 line means "the loss of 95,000 jobs," warned...
...Donnell, an HMS associate clinical professor, began collecting genetic data 10 years ago. He said that he was “prompted by curiosity” about the specific causes of heart attacks, adding that when he began there was no strong evidence for any specific gene association with heart attacks. The information from O’Donnell’s previous research, as well as data from six other labs, was compiled into a set of 3,000 heart attack patients and 3,000 controls. Researchers performed a million tests on each patient?...
...extinction. But here on the Monterosa plantation near the town of Choron, a small group of entrepreneurs and laborers has dedicated itself to making sure the bean flourishes once more. Monterosa's owner, Kai Rosenberg, has devoted the past 20 years to resurrecting the criollo strain and its gene base. "After I survived a rampant cancer, I decided I was going to do what I really loved," he says. "I used to be in insurance. Can you imagine?" (Watch TIME's video, "Bacon Chocolate...
...extension, of the thriller genre's obsessive hero. Back in the '70s, a cop film mined the similarities between the man with the badge and the criminal he hunted. That was The French Connection, whose wary sympathy for, and exposé of, the cop played by Gene Hackman won the movie an Oscar for Best Picture. But this actual French movie has nothing more on its mind than dozens of bad guys getting beat up and another one turned into instant roadkill...
Star Trek's GENE RODDENBERRY to have ashes shot into space for second time. Will boldly go where he's already gone before...