Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Genome? The word evokes a blank stare from most Americans, whose taxes will largely support the project's estimated $3 billion cost. Explains biochemist Robert Sinsheimer of the University of California at Santa Barbara: "The human genome is the complete set of instructions for making a human being." Those instructions are tucked into the nucleus of each of the human body's 100 trillion cells* and written in the language of deoxyribonucleic acid, the fabled DNA molecule...
...ROBERT ADAMS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AMERICAN WEST, Philadelphia Museum of Art. A tribute to the master photographer of an imperiled landscape, in which nature's beauty is elbowed aside by parking lots, trash and suburban sprawl. Through April...
After solitary confinement, the camaraderie is energizing. From memory Sutherland recites the poetry of his beloved Robert Burns, in the brogue of his native Scotland (he once played professional football with the Glasgow Rangers). Father Jenco takes the hostages on an imaginary tour of Rome and the Vatican. Anderson makes a deck of cards from paper scraps, and they all play cutthroat games of hearts...
...member of the Armed Services panel, has never performed military service or worked at the Pentagon. But in the wake of the Tower tempest, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle anticipate a quiet and speedy Senate review. "This time it will be a confirmation," said Senate minority leader Robert Dole, "not an execution...
Executive Vice Presidents: Donald M. Elliman Jr., S. Christopher Meigher III, Robert L. Miller...