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Bellow also does a good job of emphasizing the depth of Clara's love for Teddy. She seems to worship the "important person" but fails in her attempts to include herself in his professional political life. "When she came into her own, Clara thought, she'd set up a fund for him so he could write his views," Bellow writes...
...arranged for the purchase at an inflated price of a vacation condominium that Paisley owned in Sun Valley, Idaho. Prosecutors say the payment -- about $149,000 for a condo later sold for $100,000 -- constituted a bribe. The money came from a secret $5 million fund that Gardner set up with Unisys money and devoted to bribery and illegal campaign contributions, as well as his personal use. He allegedly replenished the fund by charging the military for consulting work that was never performed -- which would mean that the Pentagon unknowingly supplied the money to corrupt its own officials...
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...
...recently appointed by the Energy Department to head one of its two genome centers. "It's largely an engineering project," Cantor explains, intended to produce tools for faster, less expensive sequencing and to develop data bases and computer programs to scan the data. Not to be outdone, Japan has set up a consortium of four high- tech companies to establish an automated assembly line, complete with robots, that researchers hope will be capable of sequencing 100,000 base pairs a day within three years...
...Byce set up the Badgers' third goal, intercepting a pass in the center-ice area and feeding defenseman Paul Stanton, who closed in on Cohen from the right side and beat him with a low shot with only 40 seconds left in the period for his seventh goal of the season...