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Small wonder that California seethes with anger and accusations as furious consumers, power suppliers, legislators and regulators point fingers at one another. "Consumers are being asked to conserve on power, but suppliers are unwilling to give up a shred of their profits," complains Susan Weisberg, a San Francisco editor whose home office went dark for more than an hour last Thursday. In Sacramento, Republican state representative Keith Richman, a practicing physician, accuses Davis of Hamlet-like indecisiveness as the crisis worsened. "If I had stood by and watched one of my patients decline without taking action," Richman says, "I would...
...idea was to shred the creature's DNA, sequence each of the millions of tiny fragments, then (the hard part) reassemble the sequences in their proper order. Critics argued that it was too difficult a task, and the project failed to get federal funding. But within a year TIGR published the bacterial genome--the first free-living organism to be fully sequenced...
Then how does the so-called active ingredient of homeopathic brews work? Well, say the homeopaths (with straight faces), during the shaking process, which they call succussion, a "memory" of the original active ingredient is somehow retained by the surrounding solution. Sheer mumbo jumbo without a shred of evidence, say most scientists...
...someone pllleeaassee do a little research? Is it that hard to produce a movie about The Revolutionary War that actually maintains a shred of historical accuracy and dignity? Why are filmmakers so afraid of complexity? Those were just a few of the torrent of questions that flooded my brain while enduring the mind-numbing Mel Gibson epic, The Patriot, over the Fourth of July weekend. I didnt hate the movie, I just didn't understand the point of it. Why make an American Revolution epic if you aren't going to imbue it with at least a semblance...
...sharp claws don't leave a nasty mark. Frightened by the news, Americans by the hundreds of thousands have put themselves on waiting lists for tire replacements. Auto-repair shops have had to field countless calls from panicked customers clamoring to have their tires checked, worried about every tiny shred, every tear on the tread. Nothing last week allayed those fears. On Thursday NHTSA raised to 88 the total deaths attributed to the defective tires and the number of injuries to 250. Meanwhile, Firestone's voluntary recall has so far replaced only close to 2 million of the 6.5 million...