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...somewhat artificial nature of this much anticipated milestone was underscored in two separate announcements last week. Writing in the journal Nature, a team of scientists working on the public project reported that they had finished decoding chromosome 21, the strand of DNA responsible for, among other things, Down syndrome. And a California company, DoubleTwist, Inc., said it had used data from the public genome project to pinpoint 65,000 individual genes, out of the 100,000 or so in each human cell...
...Russell cut her flowing, curly hair. (Would that Billy's dye job had done the same for Ally McBeal.) "It's something that a girl of that age, having gone through serious changes, would realistically do," says Abrams, who blames the drop-off on the cutting of a narrative strand instead: the co-ed protagonist left a long-term relationship at the start of the season. Whatever the problem, it hasn't been the dry-witted scripts--including a pitch-perfect Twilight Zone imitation--or the cast, which, with beautiful comic timing and depth of character...
...Crimson would strand all three runners, however, as Waldman caught sophomore infielder Josh San Salvador looking before Llanes grounded into a double-play...
Cartier-Bresson demonstrated the strange magic in moments in which nothing much happens but all sorts of things are revealed. RUNNERS-UP Identifying the Dead, Russian Front by Dmitri Baltermants; Wall Street by Paul Strand...
...pull out a single strand is a very difficult thing to do. It's a piece of the environment in which the negotiations are carried out," says Merry Touborg, director of communications for the office of human resources...