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...tailored to individuals, and researchers involved in large genetic studies. Chaim Birnboim, a research scientist and med-school professor who developed Oragene, knew there was demand for a simple, noninvasive DNA-collection method, "and I thought, I can do that." The trick was discovering that saliva was a rich source of DNA that could be easily stabilized. The product could have important implications for law enforcement, forensic sciences and the military. Individuals may even want an Oragene kit to preserve a bit of a loved one--or themselves--if they fear that their remains may later need to be identified...
...that the Web also bites. Perhaps the campaign's most talked-about online moment is a video clip of Rudd, apparently eating his own earwax several years ago in Parliament. The embarrassing footage has been reported on around the world, and downloaded almost half a million times. There are rich pickings in this new age of online politics, but plenty of pitfalls...
These would be hard times for Voltaire and Churchill. Marilyn Monroe too. Champagne, the libation they all adored, is running short. The drink itself is as effervescently seductive as ever--322 million bottles were sold last year, thanks largely to the world's new rich. Russia imported 731,322 bottles in 2006--39% more than the year before. China's imports increased 50%. That demand has pushed Champagne, the beautifully austere part of northeastern France that produces this nectar, to the brink. "For 30 years the region of Champagne has always succeeded in coping with demand," Frédéric Cumenal...
...observing a "Rich supply of homoeroticism" in The Lord of the Rings, Cloud shows that he projects homosexual lust onto any friendship between members of the same sex. It's a pity he apparently has no concept of intimate friendship without a sexual aspect. Like too many people these days, he sees the world through a prism that puts the focus on sexuality...
...apartheid, he said, was “as if Bush were to immediately withdraw troops from Iraq and increase taxes for rich Americans,†Leon said...