Word: coding
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...they've paid $25 a head to do it. The good news is that these are 2,200 people who make me look like the young John Travolta. These are the people you see on convention floors, who are referred to as the party "faithful," which I suspect is code for "loser." They shake "Janet Reno for governor" signs more than their booties. Never having been at a club where I felt at all cool, I use the opportunity to approach five women in half shirts and low-slung jeans and buy them Absolut and Red Bulls. I ask Nicole...
...heated debate among biologists. Eckard Wimmer, a microbiologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, led a team that built a copy of the polio virus by assembling more than 7,000 base pairs of DNA to match a published record of the virus's genetic code. Some scientists say the research, while an impressive technical feat, creates needless fears in a population already skittish about anthrax and smallpox. "Why did [Wimmer] pick a human disease which conjures up terrifying images?" asks Stanford University biowarfare expert Steven Block, who points out that scientists have long known that...
...times--right up there with Tom Clancy and Stephen King--is a series about the End Times, written by Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, based on the Book of Revelation. That part of the Bible has always held its mysteries, but for millions of people the code was broken in 1995, when LaHaye and Jenkins published Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days. People who haven't read the book and its sequels often haven't even heard of them, yet their success provides new evidence that interest in the End Times is no fringe...
...comes to the time of judgment, "no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, but My Father only." In that light, if Christians are called to put their faith in Christ, whatever trials they face, then it undermines that trust to try to read the signs, unlock the code, focus on what can't be known rather than on what must be done: heal the sick, tend the poor, spread the Gospel...
Some attendees at the 291-year-old Royal Ascot horse races in Berkshire, England, last week got a dressing down for outfits that weren't up to code: hats for women, top hats and morning coats for men. The tradition-bound Queen instructed officials to bounce a BBC camera team from her official paddock because the men sported open collars. Also turned away were Rod Stewart, in a blue-striped coat, and his girlfriend, hatless photographer Penny Lancaster, left. The couple didn't intend to enter the paddock, Lancaster said, but "just got a bit lost." Of no concern...