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...same way. It's a bit like taking all the words in a novel, jumbling them up and then trying to re-create the original book, putting sentences, pages and chapters back in the right order. The chances of that happening with 100% accuracy are minuscule, which helps explain why cloning is so inefficient. Rudolf Jaenisch, a geneticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, estimates that 4% to 5% of the genes in a cloned animal's genome are expressed incorrectly--probably because of faulty methylation. "If you reprogram, it affects the whole genome," he says. "From what we know...
...proponents of "net neutrality" have offered few if any specific examples of how broadband companies have abused their power, which helps explain why Congress has now twice rejected attempts to insert language ensuring "net neutrality" into a telecommunications bill it is considering. Despite an intense lobbying effort by bloggers and Google, the House rejected net neutrality 269 to 152 last month. And last week, on a mainly party-line vote in a Senate committee, Republicans blocked an attempt to put it in the Senate version of the bill arguing it constituted excessive and unnecessary regulation of the Internet...
...activities. Syed Waris Shere Paris Football and Flag Waving The article "Germany's next pitch" [June 12] reported on Germany's willingness to create a new national image and present it to the world while the country is host of the World Cup. Public relations campaigns alone, however, cannot explain the flag mania that has gripped the country and provoked an unexpected outburst of black, red and gold on cars, faces, clothes, or draped from windows. That Germans seem to have discovered their flag and its stylish possibilities does not give cause for concern to our immediate neighbors, who were...
...explain the Bush administration? Or more precisely, how to explain the defining characteristic of George W. Bush's presidency - this fondness for rhetorical extravagance, this straining after greatness, this implausible invocation of only the loftiest goals and purposes...
...Heady projections about the future of China's travel industry also help to explain this frenzy of hotel building. Already the world's fourth most popular tourist destination, the country is expected to move into second position within a decade, according to the World Tourism Association. By 2020, China is forecast to overtake the U.S. as the world's most-visited country, pulling in some 130 million visitors a year. China's burgeoning domestic-tourism market is also critical in the bullish calculations of hotel companies. By 2010, the number of domestic tourists is forecast to soar from 1.2 billion...