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Chan’s technique of DNA mapping differs from traditional methods in the way it scans each individual molecule of DNA. Instead of reading small pieces of strands separately, the new method reads an entire strand at once. After the double helix is unraveled, a laser reads off the base pairs that determine the DNA sequence...
Laced throughout the exhibit, though, amid the anguished cries for a better world, there is a strand of hope. Seventeen-year-old Neera, for instance, drew a chain of women joining hands and “organizing to solve the different kinds of social problems...
...figured out how to "carve" the board to make regular skateboard-style turns, but every time I started sliding, I promptly fell on my behind. It was fun for the two or three seconds before I came crashing down. "There's a pretty steep learning curve," admits Steen Strand, 35, the investment banker turned entrepreneur who invented Freebord. Will I ever catch big air on that curve? Probably not. But that's O.K. I may break my neck trying, but at least I won't die of boredom--or Chunky Monkey ice cream...
These people and thousands of others like them are crafting a new strand of Islam, one that aims to reconcile the basic tenets of the faith - such as social justice and submission to the will of God - with the realities of contemporary European life. Though this process has been under way for some time, the events of Sept. 11 and afterward have lent it new urgency...
...rhetoric has particularly dulled in Pakistan, where a columnist for the Karachi News International wrote last week that "the unraveling of the self-styled Islamic State [Afghanistan], the only one of its kind in the Muslim world, took only seven weeks. The fabric woven with only one strand, religious fervor, could not withstand the pressure of modern technology." For its part, al-Jazeera had repeatedly promoted the Taliban's military prowess. While the network still relentlessly airs stories about the plight of Afghan refugees, it recently showed a program that denounced the Taliban's extremism and gender oppression...