Word: complexity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Harvard continues its Ivy hunt this weekend at home, taking on Princeton Friday and Penn Sunday. On Sunday before the match, Harvard will inaugurate the Beren Tennis Center, the new 18-court outdoor tennis complex...
...approach to plow through all those letters, is working at a furious pace as well. Only two weeks ago, he announced that Celera had completed mapping the genome of Drosophila melanogaster, a.k.a. the fruit fly, a favorite tool of lab scientists. While the fruit fly genome is far less complex than the human, Venter's tour de force (performed as a warmup to his human-genome work) indicated not only that his approach is working but also that he might well breeze through our entire genome, identifying most of its letters and lining them up in the right sequence, well...
...about the judge's ruling. For the supercompetitive Microsoft types, this was rubbing salt in the wounds. And it confirmed their suspicion that the government was unfairly "out to get" them. It's one thing for an official agency to conclude solemnly that you have violated a vague and complex law. It's another thing for it to celebrate your humiliation...
...serious discussion of Garland's musicianship. "I never heard anybody sing...just the way you do," an amazed James Mason tells her in A Star Is Born. Truer words were never scripted. Dumpy and unglamorous, she acted the way Frank Sinatra did, as an intuitive extension of the complex persona she had first painstakingly built up with her voice alone. When Hollywood finally slammed its doors in her drug-raddled face, she moved into concert halls and sang her way back to superstardom. An ideal biography would have had something memorable to say about that molten mezzo voice...
...information on anything related to the military was automatically considered espionage. But nowadays you have Russians, and sometimes Americans, working on non-governmental contracts from institutions that sometimes also have some federal funding and are working with open sources of information to gather information on the Russian military-industrial complex. Even when it's aboveboard, this makes the Russians very nervous...