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Humans are 99.9 percent genetically identical and have only twice as many genes as the worm or the fly, according to information released yesterday by organizations that are sequencing the human genome...
...schedule. The wordless plots are simple and archetypal, tapping into primal-process stories of food, fear and friendship. "Frank's High Horse," the lead story that continues across issues, involves Frank's finding a vicious protector called the High Horse (though it looks more like a giant, floating planarian worm). Soon Frank becomes addicted to the power this brings him, desperately following it as it slips through a slit in the sky, back to its own plane of existence...
...wheel. Kimmi, a vegetarian who will eat fish but has a moral objection to "land-dwelling animals," including cow brain, should have been canned for costing her team the win. But Tina choked - literally - on her tripe, and Kimmi came back impressively by scarfing down a foot-long mangrove worm, which apparently didn't bother her morally. (I guess the Vegetarian Code doesn't cover anything nobody in the West ever thought to eat before, even if it is land-dwelling.) And kudos to CBS for the well-designed tiebreaker...
...vote Thursday. This is what Daschle wanted; even though he plans to vote against Ashcroft, Daschle has made it very clear he's not in favor of filibusters on Cabinet nominations - in part because he shares some Democrats' worry that if the process is too harrowing, the worm could turn. And a future Democratic president's liberal Cabinet nominee could face the same kind of attacks...
...years before scientists fully understand how relevant the worm model is to human aging...