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Last year, when Bob Woodward published The Agenda, about the first year of the Clinton White House, he acknowledged his debt to fellow Washington Post reporter David Maraniss, who, Woodward said, knows Bill Clinton better than any writer working today...
Anyone who thought Jurassic Park was farfetched should talk to molecular biologist Scott Woodward. In last week's Science, Woodward announced that he had isolated DNA from an ancient creature that he was 90% sure was a dinosaur. If enough of it were collected, such a sample could, in theory, be cloned into a living specimen -- just like in the movies. Woodward, an associate professor at Brigham Young University, extracted the DNA from two bone fragments found in a Utah coal mine, where they had been protected by muck and never fossilized...
...does this mean that a dinosaur assembly plant is on the way? Don't hold your breath. The sections of DNA that Woodward collected are much too short for any practical use. The full complement of genes needed to create an organism contains billions of nucleic acid pairs. Woodward found 174 pairs, too few to be certain what animal they came from. "The pieces are so short that you can't say they are like one thing or another," says Ward Wheeler, a molecular biologist at the American Museum of Natural History. "It could be a turtle or a mammal...
...light on the aborted effort to dump Dan Quayle because of a secret poll showing that the Vice President was costing Bush 4 to 6 percentage points. (She later strains credulity when she gushes, "We knew the real day-to-day Quayle, and he was really smart.") Where Bob Woodward breathlessly announced in The Agenda that the President has a temper, James rightly treats these tantrums as common knowledge and not to be taken too seriously. "The truth of the matter," he says, "is that ((Clinton)) was all smoke and no fire...
...political action committee Emily's List; member Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi of the South African national assembly; Michael Gartner, former president of NBC News; labor and public interest lawyer Thomas Geoghegan; Nancy Maloley, a former special assistant to President Bush for environment, energy and natural resources; and Shaun Woodward, the former communications director for Prime Minister John Major's general election campaign...