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...fins and feet and other complex structures are also encoded in DNA, and until the 1980s, biologists had almost no knowledge of the genes that built them. Over the past 25 years, biologists have identified many of the genes that help build embryos. A number of them help lay out the embryo's blueprint by letting cells know where they are. The cells absorb proteins floating around them, and the signals trigger the cells to make other proteins, which in turn clamp onto certain bits of DNA to switch neighboring genes on and off. This network of genes eventually leads...
...even ticket-holders would no longer be admitted; the metal detectors had malfunctioned and each person was being screened by hand; someone had gone into cardiac arrest; all previous entrants had been re-checked once a series of counterfeit tickets were discovered. The only certainty in the throng lay in the fact that the ceremony could not be delayed, postponed, or rerun. It had to happen exactly at twelve noon. Always on time. By the constitution.Josh and Amy abandoned the quest and elected to go watch the ceremony on TV, but I threw my lot in with the crowd...
...government-appointed board of directors is looking to sell the company. "Our top priority is to protect the jobs of the software professionals," announced Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, chief minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh, where Satyam is based. In October, Indian airline Jet Airways reversed a decision to lay off 1,900 staff after some weeping victims melted Chairman Naresh Goyal's heart. "I could not sleep at night," he confessed at a press conference. "I was mentally disturbed when I saw tears in their eyes." (Although he said he changed his own mind, Goyal might also have been...
...Sure enough, the ball went down to the post, and Mullery looked to have position set for the lay-up finish. Out of nowhere, the injured Harris flew above Mullery and the rim, swatting his shot attempt cleanly to the top of the key. It was one of the biggest blocks of the season, and considering Harris did it with an injured knee, it proved all the more dramatic...
Comfort, at a Cost. US Airways is falling in line behind JetBlue and charging economy-class passengers for a pillow and blanket. You'll have to lay out $7 for the perk, but you can keep the set. First class and business class passengers continue to get their comfort gratis...