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...heck with creating new life-forms. Venter should channel his energies into constructing a chromosome for extant humans that would help us store critical life-enhancing information - like anniversaries, passwords, account balances and payment-due dates. That would truly benefit mankind. John Herman, Dix Hills, New York...
...When she saw Letterman picketing, Shore was crushed. "I watched him from the bay window here," she would recall years later, frail and shaking from a nervous disorder and sitting in the empty showroom at the Comedy Store. "I was taken aback. I was crying. Three and a half years working with him, every night. I called him that night at his apartment. I was totally choked up. And he said, 'Those comedians are my friends. And they'll be my friends for the rest of my life.' I said, 'I'm sorry to hear that, David.'" Says Argus Hamilton...
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...shuffling wave of older folks continues further down the street, past peddlers of hair nets, wigs and hair pieces, to a red "80" hanging above Echigoya, Jizo-dori's oldest store. The number refers to the years the kimono-retailer-turned-women's-clothing has been in business, and Mr. Tamura has worked the store for 30 of them. He says that styles on the floor are now skewed for a "younger look," because women in their 60s and 70s are more fashionable than those born during the Taisho period (1912-26). Female shoppers aren't necessarily looking for deals...
...Another hot item in the stores of Sugamo is red underwear. The brightly colored undershirts and underpants are the coveted items of many a Japanese senior, says Miyoko Kaneko, 66, who traveled to Sugamo to pick up a few pairs at Maruji clothing store for herself and her friends back home in neighboring Saitama prefecture. "It's no good if it's not red," she says, as someone who wears them daily. "It keeps you warmer." As do the copious amounts of Japanese sake, beer and wine that stand out near the entrance to the local 7-11. One employee...