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...alive? Yes. Is a virus alive? Maybe. Still, a half-century after the discovery of the double helix, nobody doubts that it is our DNA that determines what we are - in the same way that lines of code determine software or the digital etchings on a CD determine the music you hear. Etch new signals, and you write a new song. That, in genetic terms, is what Venter has done. Working with only the four basic nucleotides that make up all DNA - adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine - he has assembled an entirely new chromosome for an entirely new one-celled...
...worst days?and there have been plenty of late?Winehouse looks a safe bet for an early grave. After a 2007 full of well-chronicled erratic behavior ranging from mumbled concert performances to a drug arrest in Norway, her in-laws pleaded for a public boycott of her music so that she and her equally troubled husband, Blake Fielder-Civil?currently in jail for attempting to bribe a bartender he allegedly assaulted to drop the charges?might be deprived of the income they spend getting wasted. One day in December, Winehouse wobbled out of her London home...
...early 1990s, punk rockers, says singer Tim Eriksen, "were looking for that kind of intensity in other music." Eriksen's band, Cordelia's Dad, and other postpunks seized Sacred Harp and exported it to trendsetting places from Northampton, Mass., to Portland...
Scientific studies show that listening to classical music while working helps you concentrate and retain information. Fuck that. FM offers this study mix to get you into the finals groove...
...candidate who knew why he was running, after all. He crisscrossed the state telling its depressed electorate that the auto industry was not dead and could be revived with the help of government investment and eased federal standards for fleet fuel economy. He turned down the social-values music and amped up the optimism. Romney was aided in the gambit by rival John McCain, who was delivering a much grimmer message: the lost jobs were gone forever, and Michiganders needed to think harder about worker retraining. McCain - who had joked in New Hampshire that "the issue of economics...