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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...We’d like to try and do more sequencing so that we can understand things in a higher resolution,” he said...

Author: By Manning Ding, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists Discover 3D Genome Structure | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...Right now, we’re trying to understand what is going on fundamentally,” said Ristenpart. “This is a very counterintuitive mechanism taking place. There’s other situations as well, like sometimes a smaller daughter droplet is emitted...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Water Drops Defy Elemental Physics | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...take back the peace prize. "Obama said today that he was surprised and humble, and even that he did not honestly feel he deserves the prize," Jan Gunnar Furuly, writer for Norway's biggest newspaper Aftenbladet, said in an Email to TIME." I think most Norwegians do not understand the decision to give Obama the prize, and a lot of us are really embarrassed over the fact that the committee could give it to the president after so short time. For a long time the Swedes have argued that they should take over the responsibility for the prize. Now they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Was the Nobel Committee Thinking? | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...difficult to understand, all this violence. It shows a determination of the military to remain in power, and to destroy all resistance." - Bakary Fofana, a civil-society advocate, on the massacre (New York Times, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guinean Leader Moussa Dadis Camara | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...wonder if they're making the right decision. When the newcomer is David Cameron, the smoothly enigmatic leader of the Conservatives, a party once so damaged by a perceived lack of concern for Britain's most vulnerable people that its own chairwoman dubbed it the "Nasty Party," you can understand why voters want proof that the party has changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nasty No More? Britain's Tories Reach Out to Gays | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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