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Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: “Yes, Mom, I’m going to Mardi Gras. No, Mom, I would never be objectified for a strand of beads...
...Venter decided to start small, with one or two genes, and work his way up by splicing together longer and longer pieces of DNA. That very act of sticking them together proved to be a challenge, since the strands often fall apart. The answer was to design a section of Velcro-like DNA at the ends of each fragment. Since adenine sticks only to thymine and cytosine only to guanine, all the team had to do was end each strand with a nucleotide that would adhere to the one that began the next...
...hundreds in Japan, died off the coast of China and has his body enshrined in the Indian city of Goa. Jesuits converted the last survivors of the Ming dynasty to Catholicism as they fled the Manchu invaders in the mid-17th century. But Nicolas also brings in another important strand of history: he hails from the northern city of Palencia, not too far from hometown of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th century Basque soldier who founded the Society of Jesus. The Jesuits eventually became the shock troops of the Church as it fought the Reformation, terrorizing Protestant regimes from...
...John Strand runs a consulting firm that does work for most of the world's big wireless carriers and gets 95% of its revenue outside Denmark. It could be based pretty much in any city with a good airport. He says he keeps Strand Consult in Copenhagen largely because his Danish employees are so willing to argue with him and confront conventional wisdom. "Danes can think out of the box," he says...
...There is great value in creating a good impression,” said Eva Z. Lam ’10, who canvassed for Obama. “We have seen tremendous excitement and involvement from students on campaigns in New Hampshire and Massachusetts,” said Kathleen Strand, communications director of New Hampshire for Hillary. The Harvard Republican Club has planned a similar excursion for Nov. 2, according to Vice President Colin J. Motley ’10. As the Radisson Hotel prepared to host Saturday night’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner?...