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...collision, a high riding SUV can plow over the hood or door sill of a smaller car and crush the passenger compartment. Several new SUVs incorporate safety bars or design features to prevent such incidents...
...Leroy Hood invents the first automatic DNA sequencer...
...Author Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Medicine will become thoroughly personalized. For under $1,000 we will be able to get our entire genome sequenced in only half an hour. Doctors will be able to tell almost instantly whether our genome is normal or carries the blueprint for disease. - Leroy Hood, president and director, Institute for Systems Biology Finally we will be able to change the way we think about cancer. It won?t just be ameliorated. It will be cured because expanding medical databases, improvements in pattern recognition and intensive computer analysis will finally bring our understanding of this disease...
...Hood, 2-4, Warren House...
Virtually all the punks in the City of God hood are teenage or younger. To be older is to be dead--killed for any reason or none, by rivals or the horde of infant pretenders. A kind of Menudo Mean Streets, Fernando Meirelles' fact-based epic zigzags through the stories of a dozen hoodlums and 20 years of carnage. The only thing worse than the sadistic glee with which Ze (Leandro Firmino da Hora) runs the town is the veneration he gets from kids who confuse machismo with maturity. "I smoke and snort," one tyro terrorist says. "I've killed...