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...Staff writer Daniel J. Rubin-Wills can be reached at drubin@fas.harvard.edu...
...Nebraska credit the communications directors they hired with Dean's funds--neither state had a full-time party flack--with helping coordinate their messages and successfully attack G.O.P. candidates. "If we win a House seat in Nebraska, Howard Dean will get more credit than Rahm Emanuel," says Barry Rubin, executive director of the Nebraska Democratic Party...
Georgetown law professor Peter J. Rubin, another of his former research assistants, says: “Harvard has an outstanding law faculty, but there are a few people who have stood out. The ones who truly have, I would say, are Joseph Story and Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court justices, and Larry Tribe...
...result, progress is maddeningly slow. And while he can't reveal details, Pääbo says he'll soon be announcing in a major scientific journal the sequencing of 1 million base pairs of the Neanderthal genome. And he says he has 4 million more in the bag. Rubin, meanwhile, is also poised to publish his results, but refuses to divulge specifics. "Pääbo's team has significantly more of a sequence than we do," he says. "Some of the dates will differ, but the conclusions are largely similar...
Although Pääbo admits that he still hasn't learned much about what distinguishes us from our closest cousins, simply showing he can reconstruct significant DNA sequences from such long-dead creatures is an important proof of concept. Both he and Rubin agree that within a couple of years a reasonably complete Neanderthal genome should be available. "It will tell us about aspects of biology, like soft tissue, that we can't say anything about right now," Rubin notes. "It could tell us about disease susceptibility and immunity. And in places where the sequence overlaps that of humans...