Word: paper
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...during the semester and during reading period, in large part because it is not the objective of college to inspire such focus. The raw amount of reading, writing, problem sets we have assigned to us indicates that the emphasis in college lies on quantity and method, not quality. Rigid paper deadlines, which are an otherwise meaningless convention, illustrate this point...
There is one catch, however: senior theses. For these are supposed to be an attempt at serious scholarship, and not, as they often end up being, just another class among four. Some professor once even said that most senior theses are not worth the paper they're written on. I don't doubt that this is true--which means, if nothing else, that I hope the Yenching is open during intersession...
...narrowly focused as their efforts are, Cohen and Scott are using gene-mapping techniques that are not very different from the Human Genome Project's. Craig Venter, on the other hand, has taken a radical approach, one that resembles paper shredding more than it does mapmaking...
...ESTs)--to help scientists distinguish one gene from another and identify related genes even in other species. "His invention of ESTs was inspired," says Victor McKusick, a geneticist at Johns Hopkins University who is often called the father of genetic medicine. In June 1991, when Venter published his first paper based on this work, scientists had identified only about 4,000 genes, each one representing years of painstaking labor. In one day, Venter added 347 new genes to the list. Soon he was finding...
...audacious proposal was quickly denied federal funding. Venter and Smith pushed ahead anyway--and within a year they had succeeded. The publication of their 1995 paper in Science was a landmark that galvanized researchers. For the first time, the genetic secrets of an entire living organism had been exposed...