Word: numbering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...every revolution there comes that bitter moment when the flag-waving has to stop, the grand social theories have to adapt to reality, and a large number of the revolutionaries inevitably find themselves hauled off to the guillotine. The dotcom revolution is no different, except that, true to form, it has accelerated the process. The time it takes to go from hero on the barricades to zero with your head in a basket has shrunk to a nanosecond...
...establish a series of research centers dedicated to a branch of proteomics known as structural genomics. The centers will detail, over the next 10 years, the shapes of 10,000 proteins. That's a tiny fraction of all the proteins found in nature, but the NIGMS thinks that number will cover most of the structures relevant to biology and medicine...
...most of those millions of proteins are just variations on a handful of themes. Proteins with similar functions--be they in insect, worm or man--often share structural characteristics that are reflected in the genes that encode them. Structural biologist Stephen Burley of Rockefeller University estimates that the maximum number of distinct shapes may be as few as 5,000. The NIGMS hopes to construct a lexicon of shapes--barrels, doughnuts, globular spheres, molecular zippers and so on--that when mixed and matched will spell the shape of any gene's product. About 1,000 of these structures...
...finally they came, if not to a meeting of the minds, at least to a workable understanding--and a framework for this week's joint announcement. After more than a decade of dreaming, planning and heroic number crunching, both groups have deciphered essentially all the 3.1 billion biochemical "letters" of human DNA, the coded instructions for building and operating a fully functional human...
Geography hardly matters anymore. Religion does, a bit. The selection of running mates, a pseudo-scientific calculation, does engage an instinct for political chemistry and physics - chemistry, because that is what is supposed to result, vividly, when you combine the two candidates; and physics, such that the gravitas of Number 2 may not exceed the gravitas of Number 1 (exception: see "Colin Powell," above...