Word: smith
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...great thing is that people aren't throwing in the towel," says Quincy Smith, partner at the Barksdale Group, a VC firm founded by former Netscape supremo James Barksdale. "They're saying this is a fact of life. Let's get back to work...
Until then, Venter had been randomly sampling and sequencing small bits of cDNA. But one of his new recruits, Hamilton Smith, a Nobelist from Johns Hopkins', proposed a bolder approach: "shotgunning" the entire genome of an organism. The idea was dramatically simple. Using an ordinary kitchen blender, they would shatter the organism's DNA into millions of small fragments, run them through the sequencers (which can read 500 letters at a time), then reassemble them into the full genome using a high-speed computer and novel software written by in-house computer whiz Granger Sutton. By contrast, the HGP divided...
...summer, and well into this one, I've been handed the responsibility of summarizing previous legal action, drafting motions and deciphering medical histories. And while I'm not convinced that my bosses are any closer to Erin Brokovich than my congressional representative is to Jimmy Stewart's Mr. Smith, I've gained enough experience to say which of the rumors about lawyers--at least, those who operate at the local level--are true and which are false...
Alixandra E. Smith '02, a Crimson editor, is a government concentrator in Kirkland House...
...conspiracy buffs will note - Branch Davidian leaders joke about their compound's lack of accessibility to the fire department, and David Koresh muses drily about an FBI agent's head exploding. Such are not the linchpins of an excessive-force case. Government lawyers are already on Judge Walter S. Smith's bad side for procedural hijinks in the trial's runup. They'll have to be embarrassed all over again about the incendiary devices. But if the case turns on the character of the victims, the name Koresh will take the government a long...