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...Collins, Venter's once and perhaps future rival, whose group at the NIH is also working on creating synthetic genes, echoes that doubt. "Suppose I have a pile of dirt in my backyard and I want to move it," he says. "I could spend months building the components, but I already have a lawn tractor, so what I need to do is add a front loader. Why not take the shortest path...
...1920s and '30s, Miles Lerman had no way of knowing he would end up making a mark on the other side of the Atlantic as an anti-Nazi warrior. After the Nazis seized his family's flour mills and he was imprisoned in a labor camp, he escaped to spend two years battling the SS in the forests of Poland. Lerman, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1947, helped plan and found the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington and became its chairman emeritus. He also met with Pope John Paul II and other leaders and spearheaded the effort to dedicate...
...general equivalency degree (GED), Army studies show that about 80% of those with diplomas complete their first term of enlistment - usually three years - compared to only half of those with a GED. The higher dropout rate means those missing soldiers must be replaced, which drives up military spending because of the need to spend money recruiting, outfitting and training new troops; the cost of getting a new recruit - before he or she even arrives at basic training - has risen from $15,000 to $21,000 over the past five years. The share of new recruits - those without military prior service...
Congratulations! You've survived an emergency airplane evacuation. Now prepare to reflect on your experience - for hours. After an evacuation, even a successful one, passengers often have to spend hours in limbo, waiting for the authorities to release them back into civilization, often due to bureaucratic or legal paranoia. It is infuriating to passengers - and their families, who are often waiting anxiously for them - while they sit in a fluorescent-lit secure location wondering what became of the beverage cart...
...sometimes" - Hillary or Bill Clinton. The Illinois Senator may have simply been trying to make a rhetorical point about the former President's role in recent weeks as his wife's attack dog, but his criticism soon seemed much more valid. Later that night Hillary Clinton announced plans to spend the next few days campaigning in Super Tuesday delegate-rich states such as California and Arizona, leaving South Carolina - which holds its Democratic primary Saturday - in her husband's hands...