Word: typo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe that Venter won't be able to complete the genome-reassembly process. They liken the job to taking a year's worth of issues of a magazine like this one, chopping the pages into one-line fragments, then trying to put the fragments back together without a single typo. As daunting as that seems, imagine that up to 30% of the text consists of nearly identical strings of words up to 7,000 letters long. Assembling these "repeat sequences," says the genome project's Francis Collins, is "a challenge to anyone who doesn't break it down into bite...
Campbell says she has little to do with the chain anymore. Still, she was shocked to learn of the typo: "My image is involved! That's terrible!" Supermodels--don't you miss them...
...investment and insurance side, Citicorp is still mostly traditional banking," says FORTUNE writer Nelson Schwartz. "There's not a lot of overlap, so there shouldn't be a lot of layoffs." Investors are voting with their wallets: Citicorp's stock price was up 34 points (not a typo) after midday; Travelers jumped 10. Merrill Lynch, Lehman, DLJ? All up, having suddenly become attractive as future acquisitions (or aquisitors) in the light of the marriage...
...tells how he will leave Beijing to visit "the Chinese cities of Fudang and Tsinghua" which one suspects is a reference to Fudan and Qinghua Universities, the former in Shanghai, the latter in Beijing. The "1948 communist revolution" is a typo, unless there's been some historical revisionism I'm not aware of. Shanghai is then referred to as a Northern Chinese city--sure, it's north of Guangzhou, but it lies in the middle of China and is generally considered an "eastern" city in Chinese place names. Finally, unless international air routes have changed, President Rudenstine will...
What you want: webcrawler.com Typo: webcralwer.com What you get: A link that points to Pee-Wee Sherman's Perverted Playhouse