Word: zeros
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...compelling: you don't need the entire genome mapped to high precision to make big advances. Cohen's discoveries of prostate-cancer genes are one example. Similarly, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, part of NIH's National Library of Medicine, is using databases of partial gene sequences to zero in on genes that make aberrant proteins in ailments like Parkinson's disease...
Venter wasn't finished, though. Last month it was revealed that the U.S. Department of Energy, whose labs are part of the federal project, was negotiating with Venter to let him do part of the job for it. The cost to the government: zero. That proposal was put on ice by project leaders, supposedly because the DOE had contracted with Venter without checking with other project members, and also out of fear that the release of information to the public might be delayed. Unofficially, it's clear that sour grapes over Venter's latest triumph played a role in their...
...Bret Easton Ellis' first full novel since 1991's American Psycho (1994's The Informers was a series of vignettes), takes on the classic Ellis topic: the amoral world. This time, that world is not just New York (as in American Psycho) or Los Angeles (The Informers, Less Than Zero) but that of international celebrity, taking in the glitterati axis of New York-London-Paris which Woody Allen has visited recently, but more lightheartedly--in contrast, Ellis is cold, cold, cold...
...while she eats a hot dog on a New York City sidewalk, Monica goes "ballistic," according to witnesses, and embeds the heel of her Manolo Blahnik shoe in the forehead of a photographer. Monica is charged with assault with an expensive weapon. Under Mayor Rudy Giuliani's new "zero tolerance" assault-shoe laws, she faces 25 years to life; but since she now has competent lawyers, the case is quietly settled out of court. "Can you imagine if Ginsburg were still representing her?" comments ABC's Jeff Toobin. "She'd be on death...
...CZECH HOCKEY Canada and the U.S. shoved in as many NHL players as could fit on a team and packed them off to Nagano; each squad came home with zero Olympic medals. The Czechs, led by NHL goaltender Dominik Hasek, beat them both. Then they crushed the formerly occupying Russians in an emotional championship game. The all-night celebration in Prague made U.S. ticker-tape parades look silly...