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When I started writing this column last summer, I assumed I'd get more questions about stuff like Monimals than, say, the vagaries of 3-D accelerators. And, frankly, it's a relief: Millions of people are buying computers for the first time, and the advice they seek tends to be on the practical (if not whimsical) side. There are a lot of beginners out there. For instance, every week I point people to our website, timedigital.com for more information about the column's topic. Invariably, I get e-mail from readers saying something like: "I tried to look...
...which printed evidence of Colorado Governor Roy Romer's extramarital relationship for reasons that have been lost to history. Nor did Tom DeLay, who now warns Senators not to vote on impeachment until they visit a locked room in the House office building for a glimpse of some juicy stuff that meets his standards of evidence even if it fell short of Kenneth Starr's. (Once dismissed by the snobs as an exterminator from Houston, DeLay has assumed the image of a dirty-postcard salesman from Tangier...
This kind of investigatory yin and yang is keeping opponents of DNA fingerprinting mollified--but for how long? Now that the gene genie is out of the bottle, there may be little that can be done to stuff it back in. Scientists in the U.S. and England already speak dreamily of moving beyond testing STRs alone, expanding their work to sample other--more richly encoded--areas of the genome. Kevin Sullivan of England's Forensic Science Service predicts that within a decade researchers may be able to use DNA analysis to draw a sort of genetic police sketch...
...whole reason [the problem sets] are hardis that you have to work stuff out for yourself,"he says. "Some new theories are not taught inclass, and you have to work through them to makethem understandable. It's a lot, it takes time,and it's hard, but it's interesting, and that'swhat makes it worth doing," Speyer says...
DESMOND PFEIFFER The now shelved UPN series cracked jokes about slavery. Painfully unfunny stuff...