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...Weinberg, a molecular biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "it is a risk all multicellular organisms run." Each time a human cell divides, it must replicate its DNA, a biochemical manuscript some 3 billion characters long. In the course of transcribing such a lengthy document, even a skilled typist could be expected to make mistakes, and cells, like typists, occasionally err. More often than not, the mistakes they make are minor and quickly repaired by proteins that serve as miniature mechanics. Occasionally, though, cells with defects in their DNA will continue to divide, eventually forming small growths. The more...
...which users attempt to turn each other on by composing one-line messages that appear on each other's computer screens as they are typed. "If you are a good writer, it can be quite effective," says one online Lothario. "It helps to be a fast and accurate typist...
...Susan Hunt, typist of Freidel's last book,said, "He was one of the nicest and kindest peoplearound. He really will be missed...
...from less than 19% in 1979. Laid-off workers who return to the market often must take huge pay cuts. Carolyn Collins, 49, of Ames, Iowa, who lost a $10-an-hour job running quality-control studies for a plastics maker, found new work as a clerk-typist, at $6.85 an hour. "If this is happening not just to me but to thousands of other people," says Collins, "I don't see how the economy can ever totally recover, because we don't have the spending power we used to." Her hunch is right. After adjustment for inflation, the real...
...ostentatious frills. His friend Tom Sancton, a senior editor, recalls that Bill liked to quote Mahatma Gandhi's admonition: "Simplify your needs." Long after the rest of us switched to electric typewriters, and later computers, he continued pounding out copy on his beloved Royal manual. A blindingly fast typist, he would write one perfect paragraph per page and then rearrange the order of the pages until he got the story structure right. One of his few concessions to modern technology was his habit of wearing airport-style antinoise earphones when he was writing on deadline. It was during one such...