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...loci of medical interest are where the DNA should be the same between everyone, only changing with disease," Bloom says. "Police are looking for the ones that change like mad, the parts that are known as 'junk DNA' by most scientists. The other part of the answer is that it's not cost effective to do millions of tests...
...early '80s came the second British invasion (the first, the Stones and Beatles), but this event was more an infection than an invasion, led by junk-pop groups such as Duran Duran and Haircut 100. R.E.M., whose oblique songs dealt with provocative topics like Bible-thumping televangelists and complaints about American imperialism, provided an alternative to the British sludge that was washing up on U.S. shores. The band received little early support from radio or MTV, but by touring college towns and playing small clubs it steadily built a base of loyal fans. Its 1983 debut album, Murmur, sold more...
...owners have also taken the game away from the fans. Take the pile of junk called The Baseball Network as an example...
...nifty minivans and reborn muscle cars, Detroit's compacts continued to deserve their reputation as cheap, homely, unreliable and, well, maybe a cut above Yugos and Trabants and the like, but not by much. Even their makers now admit that American compacts have been, for the most part, junk. Listen to Ford's Jerry Auth, a marketing executive: "Small cars built by Ford, GM and Chrysler were considered inferior -- and they were." Says Chrysler's Walter Battle, a planning manager: "They were regarded as basically underpowered, and maybe not safe." No wonder Detroit accounted for only...
...others in the crime-ridden, gang-infested Roseland community would have called Robert ("Yummy") Sandifer a baby. The 4-ft., 8-in., 68-lb. runt of a child, whose nickname came from his love of cookies and junk food, ran with a gang called the Black Disciples. Pedaling through the streets on his seatless black bike, in high-price tennis shoes and big, baggy clothes, Sandifer -- coiffed in what neighbors described as his "nappy" hairstyle -- intimidated the neighborhood with his use of knives, fire and guns. Often accompanied by four other youths just as small, he would steal, sell drugs...