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...polymerase chain reaction, a deceptively simple process with an ungainly name, may turn out to be the most important tool for genetics research since Mendel's peas. PCR takes a snippet of DNA and in a matter of hours clones up to a billion perfect copies. In the past year it has proved invaluable in everything from making prenatal diagnoses of genetic diseases to identifying rape suspects from a single sperm cell...
...Reagan, who kept hope alive during the interregnum between the California governorship and the White House by doing radio commentary. Jackson's advisers hope the show will present a "cooler" Jesse Jackson than the image viewers usually get. "Most people only know Jesse from a 20-to-30-second snippet of a speech, where he's near a crescendo," says longtime aide Frank Watkins. "In TV terms he's 'hot,' and he scares the bejesus out of white people...
...simply started out with a snippet of telephone conversation. I didn't expect it to come that easily," Leland said. "I certainly can't ever count on it happening again...
Reading these genetic words and deciphering their meaning is apparently a snap for the clever machinery of a cell. But for mere scientists it is a formidable and time-consuming task. For instance, a snippet of DNA might read ACGGTAGAT, a message that researchers can decipher rather easily. It codes for a sequence of three of the 20 varieties of amino acids that constitute the building blocks of proteins. But the entire genome of even the simplest organism dwarfs that snippet. The genetic blueprint of the lowly E. coli bacterium, for one, is more than 4.5 million base pairs long...
They took away a lot more than a piece of low-cost software. Hidden in nearly every disk was an extra program not supplied by any manufacturer: a snippet of computer code many consider to be the world's most sophisticated computer virus. Every time an unsuspecting user lent his new disk to a friend or colleague, and every time the disk was run on a machine shared by other users, the code spread from one computer to another. Before long, the so- called Brain or Pakistani virus had found its way onto at least 100,000 floppy disks, sometimes...