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Until then, Venter had been randomly sampling and sequencing small bits of cDNA. But one of his new recruits, Hamilton Smith, a Nobelist from Johns Hopkins', proposed a bolder approach: "shotgunning" the entire genome of an organism. The idea was dramatically simple. Using an ordinary kitchen blender, they would shatter the organism's DNA into millions of small fragments, run them through the sequencers (which can read 500 letters at a time), then reassemble them into the full genome using a high-speed computer and novel software written by in-house computer whiz Granger Sutton. By contrast, the HGP divided...
...ceremony at one of Elektrim's power plants where, according to Polish tradition, she smashed a bottle of champagne on a new boiler and became its official guardian. "I am the first godmother of a boiler in Poland!" she says with a grin. For most Poles, Lundberg continues to shatter all molds...
...jolly silly," but with backing from on high, the plan may well become reality. Standing a dozen stories tall, current plans call for three tall beams with a half circle pointing upwards on top, with glass filling the space in between. One engineering concentrator confides that the arrangement would shatter and collapse in the face of January winds. But Harvard planners appear impervious to such timidity. Their program is delightfully simple: A different class would live in each vertical post, with a dining hall in the top arch, and the House library and common rooms in the spokes connecting...
...sent out a paper target of a human silhouette (they were out of the hostage situation ones) and loaded the clip. Being an amateur, I let my friend shoot first. He might has well have been blind. After unloading a clip into everywhere but the target and managing to shatter a supposedly bulletproof ceiling panel, my friend resigned and it was my turn. I began by shooting a few misplaced shots in the chest and the head but my aim quickly improved...
...corporate abuse" isn't new. For two generations, the Harvard-trained lawyer turned activist has been an American icon. There are children's books about him. His 1965 polemic on auto safety, Unsafe at Any Speed, led to taken-for-granted items like seat belts in every car and shatter-resistant glass. Since then, he's toiled on unglamorous issues like electric-utility rates. And he's inveighed against global-trade deals. It was Nader-founded groups that helped lead the Seattle WTO protests and who are shaping the IMF protests. "This is what a robust democracy should be about...