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...Japan. P> At Celera Genomics, Craig Venter's private company in Rockville, Md., and at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the publicly funded Human Genome Project, release of the groundbreaking information yielded joy tempered by a teeth-baring spirit of competition. Since last June, when scientists unveiled a preliminary sketch of the human genome, both teams have been working feverishly to publish their outlines of the genetic "map" that defines human beings - and which may shed light on deadly illnesses. After months of bickering, they finally decided to release their papers at the same time...
...stop laughing as he recounts how his TV team once put a plastic bag over a man's face and shoved his head into a cage to watch, up close, a mongoose fight a poisonous viper. And then there's the matador story. In this TV sketch, a pick-up truck decorated to look like a bull charges a matador. "Can I run the matador over?" the driver asked. Beat's quick response: "That would be funny." Beat thrives on humor as public humiliation, but also as a refuge from the rigid social strictures of Japan. "I was sick...
Brown, a San Francisco native, was a member of ROTC and is currently an officer in the U.S. Army, a biographical sketch provided by CBS said...
...LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN (BBC America, Comedy Central). Part Monty Python, part Blue Velvet, this macabre British comedy introduced the murderous town of Royston Vasey (slogan: "You'll never leave!") and three gifted sketch comics who played more than 60 bizarre but richly defined characters...
...prepares to shoot a scene in which the Anipals snort a pink cocaine-like substance, Smigel chuckles to himself. "I do feel like I'm devolving a bit as I get older. When I was 25, I was writing sophisticated sketches on SNL. Ever since I started Conan, I've been really silly." And lucky. After The Dana Carvey Show tanked in 1996, Smigel had enough money saved to write only when inspiration struck. He salvaged his Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoon (about a superhero combo that is really close) from Carvey and started making episodes for SNL. That...