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...explosion below an overpass in an eastern suburb of Beirut turned Eid's car into a tangled wreck of fire-blackened metal, destroyed or damaged at least 20 other vehicles, shattered glass in a nearby office building and sent a plume of dark smoke into the sky from burning vehicles. Soldiers sealed off the area as fire engines and ambulances raced to the scene of the blast...
...elegant does not mean easy. DNA's nucleotides are strung together like beads on a string, but because it adopts a crystalline structure, that string behaves more like glass. "Even doing normal things like pipetting the pieces would shatter it," says Venter. And although tiny in the microbe world, the mycoplasma's genome still required more than 580,000 nucleotides to assemble...
...couples, the benefits probably flow to them too. Some of the reasons for this are obvious. Smoking and drinking naturally decline if you've got a spouse at your side flashing you a don't-you-dare look when you reach for a cigarette or a third glass of wine. Depression and other emotional ills are less likely to go undiagnosed if there's someone at home who's mindful of your moods and notices if they darken. But there are other, less self-evident things at work too--things that you didn't realize when you decided...
...queasiness will. 10) Poster gum yourself to the floor—claim physical and mental incompetency. 11) Get too friendly with the squirrels in the yard—rabies is the new scabies. 12) Have your friends duct tape you to the giant magnifying glass in the Science Center and claim you were ambushed by overachieving premeds. 13) Burn holes into your T-shirt, douse yourself with water and claim you just prevented a case of spontaneous human combustion. 14) Stage an accident involving superglue, bare skin, and a furniture item (toilet seat not recommended). 15) Remember, if all else...
...target of Tuesday's attack may have marked it as a turning point in the campaign of political violence that has racked Lebanon since 2004, but the spectacle was grimly familiar: The acrid stench of smoke, the crunching of shattered glass underfoot, pools of black oil from destroyed vehicles, smeared gouts of congealing blood, wide-eyed and angry soldiers and police thrusting back crowds of journalists and onlookers. The car suspected of carrying the bomb was a twisted sculpture of fire-blackened steel. A second car, containing the bodies of two of the victims, appeared to have taken the brunt...