Word: interpreters
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...question and answer session after the hour-long talk, one audience member asked for Collins' thoughts on genetic research in the private sector, specifically mentioning Celera Genomics, a private company that has been engaged in a much-publicized competition with Collins' project to sequence and interpret the genome...
...marijuana growers like Kyllo, certainly demands zeal. And the Supreme Court may well rule that a man's home is his castle only if he's installed lead panels in the walls. But this is also a court that leans strongly toward individual rights, no matter how you interpret the end of the vote-counting in Florida, and they're likely to take the constitutional right against unreasonable search and seizure pretty seriously...
Other connections between Diana and me may be more related to our matching DNA and thus more applicable to clones. My twin and I filter information in much the same way, and we think, perceive and interpret things similarly. When we're together, we often respond simultaneously with the same word or sentence. We have put on the same T shirt on the same day in different cities. We have friends who are twins, both doctors, who have similar experiences. They took a pharmacy class together in medical school but sat across the classroom from each other and took separate...
...short and eye catching, and therefore attractive to the media. Yet this alternative view of voting recognizes the larger context of our campaigns and elections. Politicians function, not with the zero-sum calculus that determines their victory or loss, but rather on the balance of their own popularity. Politicians interpret their margin of victory as the length of the leash granted to their governance. (A fact that should make the next four years very amusing, if nothing else.) By voting, young people get an inch--no matter how small--of the leash granted to our politicians. More plainly, by voting...
...influenced by the traditional stagecraft of Japan's noh theater?long, intricate courtly dramas written to entertain the royal family a thousand years ago. "A noh mask is a completely expressionless mask," he explains. "It's unnecessary for the actor to act dramatically. What the audience can see and interpret is limitless." Beat Takeshi is a modern manifestation of that noh mask: today's Japanese see in him whatever they want...