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...estimated 95% of those letters fall into the category of "junk DNA"--molecular gobbledygook that spells nothing at all. Discovering where the actual genes begin and end, therefore, is key to understanding their functions--and DoubleTwist has taken a step in that direction. Using a Sun Microsystems supercomputer, the company has taken raw data downloaded from the public project's growing online database and put them through a computational wringer...
...most visible representative of Mills' opposition is Robert L. Park, a University of Maryland physics professor who recently wrote a book called Voodoo Science: the Road from Fraud to Foolishness, in which he attacks Mills and other "fringe" figures for propagating what he calls "junk theories...
...still talking about Stanford. And Duke. And state schools. Where we could have gone, would have enjoyed it more. Should have given them a second thought four years ago, or even three or two years ago. Of course, now that my day is scheduled around three-hour naps, junk food consumption and Nintendo baseball, that seems like the right idea. "Harvard doesn't teach you anything special," I say now, bits of Twinkie in my hair. "I should have gone someplace where I could have had fun." This party envy was especially strong after the senior stumble last week...
...world in which albatrosses originated, the birds swallowed pieces of floating pumice for the fish eggs stuck to them. Albatrosses transferred this survival strategy to toothbrushes, bottle caps, nylon netting, toys and other floating junk. Where chicks die, a pile of colorful plastic particles that used to be in their stomachs often marks their graves...
...though he's in competition with Buchanan, Nader says the racist rap against his opponent is unfair. Indeed, the icon of liberalism vows to reach out to conservatives. A Lebanese-American from small-town Connecticut, he rails like a Puritan. Childhood, he says, is being "corporatized by video games, junk food, undermining parental authority...Bill Bennett stuff...