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So how would you make a gene chip? Let's say you want to identify which genes get turned on, or "expressed," by the immune system in the first few weeks after the AIDS virus begins its attack on the body. First you download the sequences of perhaps 10,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs By Design | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

At around 4:20 p.m., the participants congregate to eat dates, the traditional staple for breaking the fast in Islamic heritage, and to drink milk and apple juice, (neither of which have any religious or historical significance). After this brief snack, those in attendance stand in rows in their bare...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fasting and Festive Prayers Mark Ramadan | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

They changed the tables in Annenberg last week. The new arrangement dismayed me greatly. Instead of long rows of tables, the first-year dining hall transformed for a few days to cute sets of two tables pushed together as squares. I'll admit that the setup did lend Annenberg some...

Author: By Sameer Doshi, | Title: No Need for Artificial Community | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

Between each group of pieces, Lawrence-King inserted relevant historical and technical information in his soothing, English-accented voice. He briefly demonstrated the three rows of strings on the double harp (a seeming irony), which encompass all the notes of a piano. He also explained the necessity of reaching through...

Author: By Melissa Gniadek, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Happiness Is a Warm Harp, In This Case | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

The embryos lay to rest suspicions voiced by paleontological gadfly Robert Bakker that sauropods gave birth to live young--though the grinding wear patterns on the embryonic teeth hint that the little dinos probably did break out of their shells voraciously hungry. Under a microscope, the postage stamp-size patches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unscrambling the Past | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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