Word: mads
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Then there are the complaints about the quality of his work. Collins once said that Venter's map would read like Cliffs Notes or Mad magazine. Others call him a cheat for lifting data made public on the government's GenBank website www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov at taxpayers' expense--and then patenting sequences culled from this data, thereby locking up information originally intended to be freely available. (Ironically, Celera suffered a setback when some of the government data turned out to be contaminated with nonhuman sequences...
...revision passed overwhelmingly. "I know Southern Baptists don't believe that," Currie fumed. "Baptists believe in a personal relationship with a living God. This bunch has the same spirit as the Pharisees. They try to put God in a box." Currie went away mad. He may not be the last...
...Shaft producer Scott Rudin, who recommended Wright when John Leguizamo dropped out of the role. "We did a read-through, and I said, 'Cook up some more scenes for this guy,'" says Rudin. "It's such a witty performance. Peoples is completely despicable but never understands why people are mad at him. He's like a really intelligent little...
...much for Big Tobacco, though - analysts predict the spun-off companies will worry less about the U.S. market as they focus their energies on the burgeoning demand for cigarettes abroad. In tobacco-mad China and Africa, nothing stands between the Marlboro Man and a whole new generation of pack-a-day smokers...
...while Hollywood goes mad for techno tricks, directors Nick Park and Peter Lord and their team at Aardman Studios of Bristol, England, are still crafting films by hand. Chicken Run is one of the few features made in the sublimely masochistic form of animation known as stop motion, in which plasticine puppets on miniature film sets must be adjusted 24 times for every second of film. A live-action feature has perhaps 500 shots; this 82-min. movie has 118,080. "The detail is astonishing," says Lord, still in awe of his colleagues' industry 28 years after co-founding...