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...hasn't put its strings of letters into proper order yet. This loose end should be cleared up in a year or two, but even then the so-called book of life will remain unreadable. That's because, explains Gerald Rubin, vice president for biomedical research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, "it's written in a foreign language. It's a very complicated problem. It's going to be a long time coming...
...March, Venter eased the minds of other scientists by releasing the Drosophila data; moreover, he had done the research in collaboration with Gerald Rubin, now vice president for biomedical research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and highly respected at DOE and NIH. "Rubin reassured us all that this was someone to trust," Patrinos said last week...
...appointment of DENNIS MILLER to the Monday Night Football booth sparked outrage, but his resume bears a striking resemblance to that of late MNF legend Howard Cosell...
Officers throughout the ranks offered several explanations why a park crammed with 950 cops could turn into a civic version of Tailhook. Police Commissioner Howard Safir blamed a tactical snafu: "In the past there haven't been large crowds in the park after this event. We should have redeployed resources." As for not leaving their posts, Anthony Miranda, president of the Latino Officers' Association, says, "The department, unfortunately, does intimidate officers to the point that they follow the last order they're given. God forbid that you should have an original creative thought to solve situations...
...Daffy Duck in his collection of some 20,000 videotapes. He was a lush who once showed up at a meeting so drunk that his father had him thrown out. Nobody had heard him utter anything more than "Glory to the heroic Korean People's Army!" He had a Howard Hughes-like obsession about germs, was so paranoid that he would have rivals purged, so ruthless that he was accused of masterminding a plot to assassinate a South Korean President and to down an airliner. He wore shoe lifts...