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When we reached the top, I scrambled to free myself from my torture chamber. But the sadistic Turk in the driver's seat had other plans. With us all in the back, he proceeded to execute what I later realized was the most expert 3-point turn ever performed. At the time, however, I lacked such clarity of mind and viewed this feat as a nearly successful attempt to stop my otherwise healthy teenage heart. When we finally disembarked, I was more than willing to parachute down the mountain, imagining it would be a much more civilized ride. But Sugar...
...generation older were seeing at too close hand our parents and spouses falling victim to diseases of genetic predisposition. And virtually all of us knew couples rearing children whose future was clouded by a bad throw of the genetic dice. So the National Academy of Sciences assembled an expert committee that reported one year later that the human instruction book could be established within 15 years--if we assembled the appropriate scientific leadership and gave it $3 billion to spend wisely over those 15 years...
...scientist whose work has been transformed by genomics is Dr. David Altshuler, an endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who does research at M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute. A diabetes expert, he wanted to learn more about a gene known to be involved in adult-onset (Type II) diabetes and obesity. He knew that the gene was about 100,000 chemical letters--or base pairs--long, and that only about 2,000 of those directed the production of a protein...
...break and froth by leaning out of a helicopter and sailing on choppy seas with a video camera. "First we found out it's all about foam," says Zargarpour. "Then we found out it's all about mist." Reality was then simulated by ILM's software creators, fluid-dynamics expert John Anderson and programmer Masi Oka. Given variables like wind velocity, for example, the program could determine the size of a wave or the magnitude of a splash. ILM artists would often test hundreds of variables for a single shot, and Zargarpour's team would provide "shaders" to simulate texture...
Professor Jeffrey Hamburger--an expert in medieval art currently at the University of Toronto--is new to Harvard, while his soon-to-be colleague--Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities Ewa Lajer-Burcharth--was offered a rare internal tenure...