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...clase media en Albuquerque, NM, y hoy vive con su esposo e hijo peque?o. Tiene un m?ster en periodismo de Columbia University y trabaj? como reportera para el Los Angeles Times y el Boston Globe. La perspectiva de Vald?s-Rodr?guez sobre la vida latina de EE.UU. ha encontrado una diversa audiencia. Dirty Girls ha vendido m?s de 350,000 ejemplares y est? en preparativos para convertirse en una serie en la cadena Lifetime la pr?xima primavera. Su segundo libro, Playing with Boys, ha vendido 130,000 ejemplares en cubierta dura. Est? elaborando dos novelas m?s con temas femeninos...
...independencia ha sido bien recibida por muchos en la comunidad latina como se?al de que Mart?nez promover? intereses m?s all? de su compromiso con los cubanos de Miami. La Florida, a pesar de ser considerada la base de la conservadora comunidad Cubana, tiene quiz?s la comunidad latina m?s diversa de la naci?n, incluso mejicanos, puertorrique?os, centro y sur americanos que a menudo se encuentran en desacuerdo con las pol?ticas de inmigraci?n y educaci?n del presidente. M?s que cualquier otro pol?tico en Estados Unidos hoy, ?Mart?nez tiene la oportunidad de hablar por todos los hispanos?, dice Dar?o Moreno, un experto...
...harsh chemicals to process ethanol, but microbes could do the same thing. "I think it's doable within this decade," says Patrinos, "that we will develop a superbug that can make that conversion in a very clean way." Indeed, JGI, in collaboration with the San Diego-based biotech company Diversa, is sequencing communities of bacteria from the guts of termites in an effort to find genes that make hydrogen and ethanol. It's also looking for genes that enable microbes to metabolize radioactive waste...
...Diversa has 14 more products in the pipeline that it hopes could be used for everything from manufacturing pulp and paper to processing food, generating biofuel and synthesizing drugs. While most of the activity thus far has been focused on the enzymes the microbes churn out, the bugs themselves are also being eyed for commercial exploitation...
...Diego-based Diversa Corp. is one of the most active prospectors. The company has searched for useful microbes at geothermal and hydrothermal vents, in acidic soils and alkaline springs, in marine sediments, at industrial sites and all over Antarctica, among other places. "Eventually," says Diversa CEO Jay Short, "we want to sample every portion of the globe." Any profits will be shared with the country of origin...