Word: reportable
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...when I went up to Capitol Hill in May 1987 with the N.A.S. report in hand, I promised that long before the genome project was completed we would have cloned many of the key genes predisposing humans to Alzheimer's or to cancers of the breast and colon, all diseases known to run in families. Happily, time has seen our science so move...
...first report emphasized that we should begin by sequencing the relatively tiny genomes (1 million to 13 million letters) of bacteria and yeast and then move on to the 100 million-letter-size genomes of worms and flies. We were confident that by the time we were done, sequencing technology would cost less than 50[cents] a letter, and that by then, we would be ready to tackle the human genome. We were also confident that genomics would pay scientific and medical dividends long before the final letters of the human genome were in place...
...link George W. Bush's granting of a stay of execution with compassion for Ricky Nolen McGinn [NATION, June 12]? Bush has always been a man-eating tiger about Texas executions. Do we think a catchy campaign phrase can suddenly change his stripes? You didn't report that Barry Scheck offered to pay for a DNA test for McGinn, who was convicted of rape and murder. The fear of being caught with a wrong decision is what drives most politicians of any stripe. PHIL PARKINSON Rio Rancho...
...doing just what Alan Greenspan wants it to. According to figures released Friday, personal spending, the engine of the boom, rose just 0.2 percent in May - the same level as the revised April numbers. Personal income, the engine of personal spending, rose at a slower rate. And the report's implicit price deflator, one of the Fed head's favorite inflation indicators, was unchanged in May for the second straight month. If this keeps up, Greenspan could sit on his hands for the rest of the year...
...Laura to be leading, negative, condescending, and noncommunicative. It is as if you were "searching" for a way to entrap this leading radio communicator into making some "confession" that would serve your warped view of what would represent the news. Why anyone at your organization relies upon you to "report" the news is a total and complete mystery...