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...detailed and complex. Explains George Bell, head of genome studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory: "It's as if you had a rope that was maybe 2 in. in diameter and 32,000 miles long, all neatly arranged inside a structure the size of a superdome. When the appropriate signal comes, you have to unwind the rope, which consists of two strands, and copy each strand so you end up with two new ropes that again have to fold up. The machinery to do that cannot be trivial...
...have their clothes, but then that is a matter of taste. By choosing to absent themselves from their home turf, Valentino and Gigli have sent the kind % of political signal that is beyond debate: Paris is fashion central, and Milan is just a big backyard. This is not news to the French, of course, who responded to the story of the traveling Italians with the kind of equanimity that barely skirts smugness. "Paris is still No. 1 in fashion," says Jacques Mouclier, president of the Chambre Syndicale, which sponsors the twice-yearly ready-to-wear fashion shows held...
Although Bok insists he was not trying to send any kind of message with either appointment, this week's selection of Professor of Government Robert D. Putnam as new Kennedy School dean seemed to send a clear signal to faculty members that academics would have to be the top priority at Harvard's youngest professional school...
Nonetheless, the diplomatic flurry had other modest symbolic achievements: Arens met with President Hosni Mubarak, marking the first time since 1982 that an Egyptian leader has been willing to talk with a member of Israel's right- wing Likud bloc. That very act seemed to signal some thaw in the "cold peace" that prevails between the two countries. Shevardnadze's revival of the international-conference proposal skillfully shored up the Arab moderates who have long advocated it, and his presence in Cairo, the first visit by a Soviet Foreign Minister since 1975, invigorated long-dormant Soviet influence in Egypt...
Only minutes earlier, 886 electors had cast ballots approving Yeltsin's candidacy for city-wide representative to the Congress of People's Deputies, a recently created legislature that Mikhail Gorbachev is counting on to boost his floundering reform drive. Yeltsin's success was a signal turnabout. Sixteen months ago, Gorbachev ousted the Moscow party boss after he passionately attacked the slow pace of Soviet reform. Last week Yeltsin overcame that taint as one of two candidates to survive the emotional twelve- hour meeting called to decide how many of ten proposed candidates would appear on the ballot for Moscow...