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...streak of stubbornness. Those qualities are all present in the campaign to help end poverty in Africa that you've heard so much about lately. When the leaders of the rich G-8 countries - essentially the world's bank managers - meet in Scotland next month, everyone, from a pair of crusading rock stars to a gaggle of African premiers and presidents, will be campaigning for a better deal for the world's poorest continent. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has already convinced his G-8 counterparts to forgive the debt of 18 of the world's poorest countries, a deal...
...same time, however, scientists have come to appreciate what can be gained from decoding other genomes, from modern chimps and ancient cave bears to microscopic bacteria and viruses. As the cost of sequencing each base pair has dropped, from $10 in 1990 to less than 9˘ in 2002 to 1/10 of 1˘ today, researchers are doing more all the time. Although 99% of the planet's genomes have yet to be decoded, researchers have identified hundreds of thousands if not millions of genes, dwarfing the paltry 24,000 or so we carry...
...ways: stuffed, in the form of a plush children's toy, or canned, for dinner. But you can't get it fresh. Although Ayukawa was once a bustling whaling port, a two-decade-long international ban on commercial whaling has all but killed the industry here. Now just a pair of companies occasionally ply nearby waters, roving for the Baird's beaked whales they're still allowed to harvest. It's the sort of insignificant game the whalers of Ayukawa would have thrown back in the old days, when meaty minke whales were the target. The rare catches...
...Crimson’s endorsement of a Glazer-Nichols pair was an anomaly among a series of ticket-specific endorsements...
Harvard, meanwhile, owned a middling 2-2-1 record after wresting a pair of victories from perpetual cellar-dwellers Yale and Princeton...