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Maybe. At their stepped-up pace, the government scientists should complete their road map of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes by late June. But there are folks out there who could spoil the victory party. Scientist and entrepreneur Craig Venter's company, Celera, using a riskier "shotgun" approach to plow through all those letters, is working at a furious pace as well. Only two weeks ago, he announced that Celera had completed mapping the genome of Drosophila melanogaster, a.k.a. the fruit fly, a favorite tool of lab scientists. While the fruit fly genome is far less complex than...
...Wright echoes the sentiment: "If you see a street musician, not that money is the main object, when you throw in a quarter, that's something we don't take for granted. Since trains come every six or seven minutes, if you miss one train, it probably won't spoil your plans. So miss a train and really listen to a musician playing...
...hours fretting over the floor plan for her house, picking the blue tile for the bathroom and ecru wallpaper for the kitchen. After a high-paid but short-lived stint as a lobbyist--a job I found in the simulated morning paper one day--I could even afford to spoil myself with a swimming pool in the backyard, an oil painting on the living-room wall and a computer in the study...
Kids, of course, are less impressed by words than by the example of parents who don't spoil themselves: who admire a pearl necklace or bamboo fly rod--and could easily afford them--but decide instead to give more to the church, or add to the childrens' college fund, or send grandma on that trip she's always wanted to take...
...some, the notion of Primal Scream encourages malicious instincts. Especially troubling are reports that the unusually icy first corner of the route was caused intentionally by other undergraduates. By literally throwing cold water on the parade, these delinquents attempted to spoil their fellow students' merriment. Unwilling or afraid to join in, they decided, albeit unsuccessfully, to ruin the experience for everyone. The next time these people appear in the news it will probably be because they have sabotaged an elderly man's dentures or embezzled money from a paraplegic. Fortunately, these types are not the norm...