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Blair is fighting back. "The idea that we authorized, or made our intelligence agencies invent, some piece of evidence is completely absurd," he said last week. Senior British intelligence officials have backed him up, so the more probable explanation of why no weapons have materialized is either an overestimation before the war or an incompetent search since. Better for Blair to be a fool than a knave, but not by much; if his judgment was faulty on his casus belli, his leadership will be suspect. Despite the paltry results so far of the search for Iraq's banned weapons...
...make grand changes in the body plan of animals, there is no need to invent new genes, just as there's no need to invent new words to write an original novel (unless your name is Joyce). All you need do is switch the same ones on and off in different patterns. Suddenly, here is a mechanism for creating large and small evolutionary changes from small genetic differences. Merely by adjusting the sequence of a promoter or adding a new one, you could alter the expression of a gene...
...Grand Marshal of Arts First, Lithgow continues the traditions which he helped to invent 11 years ago—including the parade along Quincy Street...
...sunset last Monday, Jay Garner climbed to the top of the 4,000-year-old ziggurat in Ur in southern Iraq and looked down over the remains of the city of Abraham's birth. The former three-star general, assigned to invent a democracy from scratch, was preparing to preside the next morning over the first freely convened meeting of Iraqi leaders in memory. "There we were, at the birthplace of civilization, and we were about to create a democracy," says Garner. "I had tears in my eyes...
...every time Brad appears and “slut” whenever Janet shows up, throwing rice around the theater when they get married and tossing chunks of dinner rolls during a banquet scene. Regulars pick up the lines, which vary depending on the theater and some even invent their...