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...mentioned the United Kingdom's agreement to screen for Huntington's disease, but added that he thinks the ability to make very accurate predictions for genetic characterics is light years away, except in the case of monogenic diseases...
...took over the most dilapidated network in the United Kingdom," he says of the railway lines Virgin got from the old British Rail in 1997. "It hadn't had any investment in 30 years. Trains were falling apart." Virgin introduced airline-style pricing, so that the cost of business class and peak standard-fare tickets went up while pre-booked tickets got cheaper. (A testament to the power of brand: the government forced Virgin to paint its name on the trains as a condition of the sale.) Mean-while, Virgin's two long-distance lines have ranked near the bottom...
...third act, the conspirators, disguised as mountebanks, have reached the borders of the kingdom. They are busy practicing their assumed craft, when the country-folk break in upon them and clamor for a performance. The Dynamiters comply to the best of their ability. During the performance, Della Croca, as a reporter, enters and discovers his daughter with the conspirators. At a signal from him, the police rush in, closely followed by the king and the populace. Trivia is recovered by her father, and the identity of the supposed king is made clear, to the dismay of the Dynamiters, who themselves...
DIED. T. GEOFFREY BIBBY, 83, British archaeologist who dug up the 4,000-year-old Middle Eastern kingdom of Dilmun, a secret and supposedly mythical island of everlasting life traversed by the epic hero Gilgamesh; near Aarhus, Denmark. Using little more than clay tablets inscribed with the legend of Sumeria, Bibby figured the mysterious city to be on the island of Bahrain, near Saudia Arabia...
...indeed for racists and xenophobes, as France's minister of research, Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg, triumphantly declared at a Monday press conference in Paris. He was celebrating the participation of French scientists in the Human Genome Project; other consortiums hailed from the U.S., the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Japan. P> At Celera Genomics, Craig Venter's private company in Rockville, Md., and at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the publicly funded Human Genome Project, release of the groundbreaking information yielded joy tempered by a teeth-baring spirit of competition. Since last June, when scientists unveiled a preliminary sketch...