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...sense, this is a bit depressing. It means that until scientists know how to find gene promoters in the vast text of the genome, they will not learn how the recipe for a chimpanzee differs from that for a person. But in another sense, it is also uplifting, for it reminds us more forcefully than ever of a simple truth that is all too often forgotten: bodies are not made, they grow. The genome is not a blueprint for constructing a body. It is a recipe for baking a body. You could say the chicken embryo is marinated...
...canals. Ever since the 14th century, Italian engineers have dreamed of ways to control the water. Now a solution may be at hand. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Venice Mayor Paola Costa attended a stone-laying ceremony in May to begin work on the long-delayed Moses project, a vast series of sea gates that may finally keep the sodden city...
...When administration officials made their case against Iraq, their primary casus belli was the store of forbidden weapons of mass destruction that Saddam was allegedly hiding. "Iraq continues to conceal quantities, vast quantities, of highly lethal material and [the] weapons to deliver it," Colin Powell intoned during his presentation at the United Nations in February. After two months of looking, U.S. forces have yet to turn up any quantity of WMD, vast or otherwise, which explains why Fleischer and his counterparts at the State and Defense departments rarely mention Saddam's illegal weapons unless asked by reporters. In another recalibration...
Costello is the human face of a dramatically changed industry. With about 30 steel firms operating under bankruptcy protection, the steelworkers' union has willingly taken part in a vast restructuring of pay and benefits spearheaded by New York City investor Wilbur Ross. His International Steel Group (ISG) recently completed its third major acquisition in two years, buying most of the assets of bankrupt Bethlehem Steel. Ross warns of more wage pressure ahead: "If we don't reform our labor system very soon, we won't have a manufacturing sector to worry about." He is taking aim at work rules that...
...city full of single-lane roads, crowded cafés and neighborhood bread shops. Some streets are devoted almost entirely to shoe stores, others to books or electronics or trendy club wear. On Sundays, in a tradition dating back 500 years, the entire Rastro neighborhood becomes a vast outdoor flea market, where shoppers can get anything from a rug to a kitchen set to an automobile wheel. So does Madrid really need an American-style megamall - one that comes with a 250-m ski run? A developer called Mills Corp., based in Arlington, Virginia, is betting yes, with...