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...long as the tears were made at predetermined places - always before the word only, for example, whenever it appeared on the same page as the word and. Venter's system worked in a similar way, and in 1998 he brashly predicted that using his method, which he called shotgun sequencing, he could finish the map faster and less expensively than the government's $3 billion sequencing effort led by Dr. Francis Collins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scientist Creates Life — Almost | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...mouthy with his wife - she beat him with a frying pan, sending him stumbling and bleeding into the street, where one of Crider's platoons came upon him and stitched him up. Then there was the young man with a mental condition whose brother blasted him with a homemade shotgun because he wasn't taking his medicine. Crider's men heard the shot and came running. No one was really hurt and the young man is now working at a local grocery store. Then there was the time a local distinguished community leader complained to Crider's men that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the War Stories Have Nothing to do With War | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

...playbook that Saltsman wrote for the campaign is certainly unique. Ever since Christmas, Huckabee has spent as much time posing for eye-catching photographs and chatting with reporters as he has meeting with actual caucus-goers. He dressed in orange to pose with a shotgun and hunt pheasants in Osceola. He trained for the Boston Marathon in 16-degree temperatures, dressed in Hawkeye colors. He spent about an hour getting a cut and shave at a downtown Des Moines barber. He is a photographer's best friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee's Final Push in Iowa | 1/1/2008 | See Source »

...square miles—you dial 9-1-1 and wait, often times, for two or three hours. Things have often turned out okay because there has been a handgun in most glove boxes and very few pickup trucks (not to mention homes) without a loaded rifle or shotgun. People knew that, and the crime rate was very...

Author: By Walter C. Lee, jr. | Title: The Second Amendment Is Not Outdated | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...quarter: Yale is threatening the shutout, moving to the Harvard 27, but Polhemus fumbles the shotgun snap and the Bulldogs face 4th-and-17 on the Crimson...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HARVARD-YALE LIVE! BLOG 11/17/07 | 11/17/2007 | See Source »

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