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Instead of assigning various segments of the genome to hundreds of scientists, as the Genome Project does, Venter plans to use what he calls whole-genome shotgunning. Essentially, he will put the entire genome in a dicer that will chop it into millions of segments. These chunks will be fed into 230 newly developed Perkins-Elmer robotic machines that will identify and sequence the DNA code letters in each segment. The company claims that they are 10 times more efficient than current sequencing machines and allow human operators to input in 15 minutes what used to take 24 hours...
...baby boomers, some predict that these twentysomethings will ease out of Gen X with the same grace that the hippies assimilated into corporate America. Yet this demographic dominates every stereotype of Gen X. And it leaves us to wonder what about the rest of the generation? What about the segment that does not have Mom, Dad or a college degree to fall back...
Forget about the lamentations of the middle class segment of Generation X. The struggles of these interviewees go deeper than political or cultural disaffection. Their struggle is one to survive. Fine and Weis document it with language that is less dense than the typical sociological study. As a result, The Unknown City is easy to interpret. But not easy to read. There is a flavor of dejection and hopelessness that leaves a bitter aftertaste, rendering some of the stories painful to get through. While the heavy reliance on interviews give The Unknown City a realistic outlook, it presents astonishing racial...
...some campus women say the communitycreated by RUS appeals to only a small segment ofthe women on campus...
Radcliffe will do greater harm than good to the female segment of the undergraduate population if it agrees to be only a research institution. Radcliffe alumnae feel more connected to their alma mater than do Harvard women. Radcliffe has served women--has produced content alumnae--in a way Harvard has proved incapable. Based on Harvard's callous attitude toward women, there is no reason to believe the situation will improve...