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...Makeup and prepare for interview...
...compiled a database of all Corvette owners in Washington and Idaho and another of all Corvettes stopped by police checks. They tracked a car that had recently been sold and matched its carpet fibers to those on Joseph's shoes. Seizing the vehicle, they found bloodstains similar in genetic makeup to that of Joseph's parents. And they found a mother-of-pearl button identical to one on Joseph's blouse. They then tracked the car's previous owner...
What really seemed cool to me was the Talkabout T900, another gizmo from Motorola that's also going on sale this week. A tad larger and heavier than the V phone, the T900 opens up like a makeup case to reveal a miniature keyboard and screen about twice the size of the V phone's display. You can't make calls with the T900, but you can send and receive e-mail. You can also get daily news, sports, weather and entertainment updates. Even better, it costs half as much as the V phone, and monthly fees from PageNet start...
Mounting this kind of operation for a single patient is hugely expensive--this case ran up a bill of $37,000--and the advice that works for one patient wouldn't apply to someone whose genetic makeup is different. That's why scientists at Gene Logic and other firms--Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Massachusetts and Glaxo Wellcome (both in England and the U.S.) are just two examples--are putting together databases of tissue samples to look for one-letter genetic differences. (These differences are formally known as single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs.) Fourteen drug companies and the philanthropic Wellcome Trust...
...know TV isn't for me. It makes me nervous and self-aware, and it makes me ask myself troubling questions about why I like wearing makeup so much. But that's why I want this sidekick gig. I get all the benefits of having my face on TV every night, sitting next to famous people, without bearing the responsibility of talking. Just as long as it doesn't conflict with foosball...