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...everyone believes he will succeed - or if he does, that it will matter much. Corporate giants like DuPont already put synthetic biology to industrial use. In the company's Loudon, Tenn., plant, for example, billions of E. coli bacteria stew inside massive tanks. The bacteria's genomes contain 23 alterations that instruct it to digest sugar from corn and produce propane diol, a polyester used in carpets, clothing and plastics. The hard-working bugs churn out 100 million lbs. (45 million kg) of the stuff each day, and all it took was a little tinkering with their genomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scientist Creates Life — Almost | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

Chriss Dodd, the head ofthe Senate Banking Committee, pulls in 1 more percentage point in national polling numbers than you do. Instead of trying to get people to come see him, Dodd goes where the people are. On a Friday night he's buying a buffet of Irish stew and soda bread at Jameson's Bar in Waterloo and walking around like the perfect dad at his daughter's wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Run of an Also Ran | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...like I'm Unique and Unrepeatable, set to the tune of Ten Little Indians, instead of traditional Sunday-school songs like Jesus Loves Me. Rather than listen to a Bible story, the class read Stone Soup, a secular parable of a traveler who feeds a village by making a stew using one ingredient from each home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunday School for Atheists | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...sodium levels. Briefly hospitalized. ANALYSIS OF RESULTS After AFN’s stint in Mount Auburn Hospital, the study was aborted. Planned but unperformed experiments included playing “45:33” while engaging in underwater combat, dining in fine restaurants, and chopping vegetables for a winter stew. Post-study interviews resulted in similar statements from both test subjects, who noted that despite the track’s length, the music sounded like “nothing.” When asked to best describe the feelings conveyed...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis and Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: NEW WORKOUT: "45:33" | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...advertising copywriter, parlayed her disdain for wifely chores into the snarky best-selling 1960 recipe manual The I Hate to Cook Book, a guide for quick, easy meals. It became a staple of baby boomers' kitchens, and she followed up with popular sequels about housekeeping and etiquette. Her beef stew would "cook happily all by itself," she once wrote, on "days when you're en negligee, en bed with a murder story and a box of bonbons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 5, 2007 | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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