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...Length in seasons of the average NBA career...
...genetic coding do, often it's just that--general. Investigators do sometimes succeed in isolating a single, crisp gene with a single known function. Often, however, researchers trying to map genes get no further than marking off fragmentary stretches of DNA that may be thousands of bases in length. These so-called expressed sequence tags may have real genetic information embedded in them, but determining where those nuggets are and what their structure is takes more digging...
Such scenarios are not science-fiction. With the prestidigitation of gene-amplification, only a single drop of blood or a snippet of hair or a scraping of skin can reveal the full length of the human genome, including its myriad flaws. And the potential for abusing that information is already here, as a surprised Paul Billings found in surveys of testing abuses that he conducted. "I advertised for people who had had negative experiences with social agencies, insurers or employers after genetic diagnosis, and I was shocked by the response." The most common complaint was against hard-nosed health insurers...
...friends haven't discussed it at length yet, he says...
...Fisher tried to establish himself in the post but the Hawks--with three players taller than the 6'8 senior--swarmed around him. Reid blocked several of his lay-up attempts. At one point in the first half Harvard tried to break the St. Joseph's press with a length-of-the-court inbounds pass to Fisher, but he missed that lay-up as well...