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...shuttled between his ship and his lab, Venter was overseeing another, equally grand and potentially revolutionary science project: creating life in the lab. Among the organisms he and his team sequenced in the years leading up to the human-genome work was Mycoplasma genitalium, an unlovely bacterium whose preferred target on the animals it infects is evident by its name. That organism, which the team sequenced in 1995, has one of the smallest known chromosomes of any self-replicating life-form - just 485 genes. What, Venter wondered back then, was the minimum genome an organism needed to survive and reproduce...
...Kite Ship's Maiden Voyage...
Wind-powered A commercial cargo ship that set sail Jan. 22 from Germany to Venezuela became the first to use computer-controlled kite technology. A 1,722-sq.-ft. (160 sq m) kite helps propel...
...residential and business district on the edge of Belfast Lough. The 185-acre development is the biggest regeneration project in Northern Ireland's history and would be the largest waterfront redevelopment in Europe. Its centerpiece would be the Titanic Signature Project (TSP), a tourist facility dedicated to the ship's construction. Developers estimate the TSP will draw 400,000 visitors each year, which would make it Northern Ireland's most popular urban attraction...
...Modern readers will also be obliged to overlook De Monfreid's unabashed racism and brusque, culturally superior attitude, which were both products of their time. On a ship from Marseilles to Greece, for example, De Monfreid scowls at a throng of Russian peasants, whom he finds "as uncouth and primitive as the Somali Bedouins." And the book is further marred by the same sort of excessive nautical argot (starboard this, lateen that) that makes Moby Dick such a tough sea of words to oar through. But whenever De Monfreid reaches land and begins to describe the gallery of rogues...