Word: haystack
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...been "informed of highly sensitive intelligence information regarding the Billy Carter matter, and that he should not close the investigation until he had received that information and evaluated it." Asked South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond: "Weren't you forcing them to look for a needle in a haystack, and you wouldn't even tell them which haystack?" In any event, Heymann's deputies required only six weeks to learn the information on their own. The President's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was even quicker. He had already warned Billy that his Libyan negotiations might embarrass...
Eventually, the team produced some 20,000 clones. But which ones carried the crucial interferon DNA? Analyzing them in successively smaller groups-first 500 at a time, then 64, then eight-the scientists isolated their genetic needle in the haystack: the bacteria that carried the DNA for interferon. After they found one such bug, they could easily identify others and extract the DNA fragments. The team spliced them into different places in E. coli, and, presto, the bacteria began cranking out a close facsimile of the human protein...