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...global warming is actually occurring. At regular intervals over a period of years, scientists will fire acoustic "shots" across the water and measure the time it takes them to span great stretches of the Pacific. Since sound moves faster in warm water than in cold, researchers will get an indirect indication of ocean temperature. The experiment will begin next month --if the government grants an exemption to a law protecting marine mammals from harassment...
...indirect way, Phillip Reisterer and Tom Kwidzinski have been working hard to pass Bill Clinton's health-care plan. The two Chicago men were campaigning last week for Dan Rostenkowski in the Democratic primary next Tuesday in the state's Fifth Congressional District. At one house, a portly woman in a Chicago Bears sweatshirt answered the door. "You'll read some stuff in the papers," said Kwidzinski. "Keep an open mind. Rostenkowski brings a lot to Chicago." She nodded. Upstairs a door opened, and her father, who will be casting an absentee ballot because of some amputated toes, bellowed...
Once a broken gene is found, what next? Fix it, of course. But how? There are no tweezers small enough to pry out and replace bad nucleotides one letter at a time, and there probably never will be. So gene engineers have come up with a variety of indirect strategies for getting the same result...
...genetic mutation described last week triggers cancer in an indirect way. "Every cell has a genetic blueprint -- its dictionary of genetic instructions," explains Richard Kolodner, a biochemist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and one of the discoverers of the defective gene. This blueprint must be recopied each time the cell divides. "Some mistakes get made," Kolodner continues. "The ((protein made by the normal gene)) is like the spell-checker on a computer. It helps to scan for errors, detect them and fix them." When the spell-checking gene is damaged in some way, mistakes start piling...
...include military computers that for security reasons are invisible to other users, or the hundreds of people who may share a single Internet host. Nor does it include millions more who dial into the Internet through the growing number of commercial gateways, such as Panix and Netcom, which offer indirect telephone access for $10 to $20 a month. When all these users are taken into account, the total number of people around the world who can get into the Internet one way or another may be 20 million. "It's a large country," says Farber of the Internet population...