Word: letterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House Judiciary Committee and led by its chairman, Henry Hyde, the managers have been preparing for their star turns as prosecutors in the trial of the century. When Lott floated his plan, a manager griped, "It was like, 'Hey, what about us?'" In a stern three-page letter to Lott, Hyde bristled at the idea that their engagement might be a limited one. "We need not sacrifice substance and duty for speed," Hyde wrote...
...finish him completely, the bank sent him a letter...
...genes, in a rough way, on the 46 chromosomes--the long, twisted strands of DNA cradled in protein at the heart of every human cell. But they had deciphered, or sequenced, only a handful of the many-hundred-word "sentences" that each gene represents--sentences made up of three-letter "words" built in turn from four available molecular "letters," represented...
...project's $3 billion mandate: sequence the entire 3 billion-letter human genome with high precision as a prelude to figuring out eventually what protein each gene produces and for what purpose (see diagram). The process can be likened to mapping out a route from San Francisco to New York City by walking the entire distance and noting every hill and valley along the way. It's slow but precise. After eight years, some 7% of the human genome has been sequenced in encyclopedic detail...
...total of 20 genomes have been fully decoded, 10 of them at TIGR. In December scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and at the Sanger Centre passed a new milestone by decoding the first animal genome, that of a tiny roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans. At 97 million letters, C. elegans' genome is by far the most sophisticated ever sequenced. But if Venter's newly formed Celera (derived from the word celerity, which means swiftness) can pull it off, his proposal to shotgun the entire 3 billion-letter human genome in three years will make the roundworm's DNA look...