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There is money to be made in open source. Brand-name Linux packages cost money. De Icaza's company, Helix Code, sells Gnome service and support. And big tech companies stand to benefit if there is an inexpensive alternative to Microsoft products. Which explains why this is one revolution significant parts of corporate America can get behind...
None of us so privileged few who first saw the double helix in the spring of 1953 ever contemplated that we might in our lifetime see it completely decoded. All our dreams at the time centered on the next big objective--finding how the four letters of the DNA alphabet (A, T, G and C) spell out the linear sequences of amino acids in the synthesis of proteins, the main actors in the drama of cellular life. As it turns out, the essence of the genetic code and of the molecular machinery that reads it was solidly established...
...Reggie Jackson's favorite mo. 4. "Sorta" suffix 7. Double-helix compounds: Abbr. 11. "THAT's a laugh!" 12. Vincent Lopez's theme song 13. River past Interlaken 14. __ Skin (controversial Springsteen tune) 16. Ms. links letters 17. Subject to additional duty? 18. According to Forbes, he's still the world's richest person 20. Los __, where hard drives seem to come and go 22. Gig components 25. One of the five Iroquois nations 28. They've got "no good explanation" for soaring 47-Down prices in the Midwest 29. Party that could bring down Barak's government 32. Some...
...bioeconomy opened for business in 1953, when Francis Crick and James Watson identified the double-helix structure of DNA. The bioeconomy has been in its first quarter ever since, and completion and publication of the decoded human genome marks the end of this gestation period...
This scalding and historic expose of the vast Soviet prison network set up for dissidents made international headlines when it first appeared in the West. It also got its author kicked out of his homeland. RUNNERS-UP The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; The Double Helix by James Watson...