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...TONY BLAIR: His simplified handwriting (no extra strokes) shows a facile mind and excellent social skills. He has a high degree of intellectual and verbal acuity and a good sense of humor...
...Institute, where he starts his day by 5 a.m., uses combinatorial methods to study everything from nanotechnology to organ regeneration. His scientists have invented 80 new amino acids and used them to make proteins seen nowhere in nature, and they are trying to create an artificial bacterium with two extra bases in its DNA and five unnatural amino acids in its proteins. "The question is," says Schultz, "Why are there only four bases in our DNA and only 20 amino acids in our proteins? What would life look like if God had worked on the seventh day and made...
Some educators have a more pressing concern--that extra days for everyone won't do much for the stragglers. "Some kids come to school with a 3,000-word vocabulary, and others come with 30,000 words, and when we place them in the same classroom from 8 to 2, the 3,000-word child can't begin to catch up," says Barbara Davis Brown, principal of the Village Academy, an extended-year school opening next month in Delray Beach, Fla., which will run 264 days a year. For those who need extra help, Brown will offer tutoring sessions afternoons...
...adapted the Hawaiian style to almost every form of music percolating through vaudeville, speakeasies and grange halls. He was as comfortable playing Broadway songs, New Orleans jazz and country laments as he was his native tunes. And with versatility went a distinctive instrumental voice, one that smiles at the extra few notes he tosses into a melodic line, at the weird mix of sliding tones and pizzicato panache...
...colon. A sigmoidoscopy, the most commonly recommended screen for colon cancer, misses about half the precancerous polyps spotted by the more costly colonoscopy, which probes the entire colon, not just the lower third. Folks over 50 should seriously consider a colonoscopy and ask their insurers to pick up the extra cost ($1,200 to $1,500 , vs. $200 for a sigmoidoscopy...