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...shuttles and the much maligned, hugely expensive B-1 long-range bomber; in Los Angeles. Known for his bluntness--"A bomber is a baby killer; people don't like bombers," he once said--Anderson successfully lobbied Ronald Reagan's aides to resurrect the controversial B-1, which could carry nuclear weapons and had little risk of radar detection, after it had been abandoned during the Carter Administration. He also helped devise the 426 hemi engine with which NASCAR champion Richard Petty won his first Daytona 500 race...
...India last week, the high-tech boomtown of Bangalore was wiped from the map. No, it wasn't hit by a nuclear attack or a natural disaster. Instead, the city simply ditched its British colonial--era moniker in favor of Bengalooru, which, in the local Kannada language, means "town of boiled beans." Other big Indian cities have already taken new names--Bombay is now Mumbai and Madras became Chennai. According to Kannada writer and Bengalooru advocate U.R. Ananthamurthy, such moves are a long-overdue reassertion of local identity. "It was the colonizer who changed the name first," he says...
...1980s, says Mootha, the mitochondrial genome--with only about 16,000 genetic "letters," compared with 3 billion in the nuclear genome--had been sequenced. That let researchers link specific, rare disorders to specific mitochondrial mutations, always passed from mother to child. But by the time the Human Genome Project was completed in 2000, it was clear that mutations in the nucleus could cause problems in the mitochondria as well. "We now estimate," says Mootha, "that while mitochondrial DNA encodes just 13 proteins, another 1,500 or so proteins used by mitochondria are encoded by the nucleus...
...morning after the North Koreans tested a nuclear device, White House press secretary Tony Snow held one of the informal off-camera "gaggles" that's meant to give reporters some sense of what the Administration's take is on the stories of the day. One reporter began to ask, somewhat playfully, "It seems there's this massive event; now we're waiting for something to happen--" Snow interrupted. "A massive event?" The reporter clarified. "I mean, a big-deal event, that they tested a nuclear--"Snow interrupted again. "A big-deal event?" Surprised, the reporter asked, "It's not?" Said...
...kind of exchange that could have made headlines--WHITE HOUSE DISMISSES NUCLEAR TEST AS NO BIG DEAL--but it didn't. The New York Times referenced the exchange in a longer piece about North Korea, but other than that, the pronouncement went unnoticed. I later asked another reporter why. "Well," the reporter explained, "we've come to understand that when he says stuff like that, he's not representing the White House viewpoint, he's just ... Tony being Tony...