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Sequences of DNA contain large segments, calledintrons, which are not actually translated intothe protein formed. This often makes finding thosegenes responsible for a given protein--the exonswhich lie between the introns--extremely difficultfor researchers, who must sift through as much as98 or 99 percent "junk...
...book Life After Television, George Gilder predicts that the merging of TV and computers will bring the demise of network mediocrity. "Big events -- the Super Bowl or the election debates or the most compelling mass programs -- will still command their audiences," he writes. "But all the media junk food and filler will tend to disappear. People will order what they want rather than settling for what is there...
...sympathize with anyone who each year must watch 300 new movies, many of them junk. This may explain why Auntie Lee's Meat Pies, Lucky Stiff, Homer & Eddie and Closet Land -- films that barely achieved theatrical release -- are among the targets of Medved's dudgeon. It also leads him to catalog, in avid detail, outrages of manners in the movies. Who else would think to tabulate recent films with scenes of vomiting (36) or urination...
...hands full with the AIDS epidemic, which is costing the industry more than $1 billion a year. Mounting product-liability claims, including asbestos and pollution damages, are running at $10 billion annually. Insurers are also still recovering from a decade's worth of bad investments in savings and loans, junk bonds and real estate. Says Roger Joslin, chairman of State Farm Fire & Casualty: "This traumatic period is unprecedented in the history of the insurance industry...
Reznor's self-flagellating rampage continues unabated through scenes of "Human junk just words and so much skin/Stick my hands through the cage of this endless routine/Just some flesh caught in this big broken machine...