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In his earnest efforts to give the South a fair shake, Applebome, a native Long Islander now raising a family in Georgia, begins by puncturing Northern stereotypes and sanctimony about the South.
Each of the oligos is a chimeric sequence designed for first round synthesis and, as such, contained two components: a 5' universal sequence and a 3' gene-specific sequence as shown in Figure 2. The gene-specific region of the oligonucleotides begins at the first or last base of the open reading frame and continues inside until the T m of the oligo was in the range of 58-62°C (25-45 nt, including the universal sequence).
He begins dating a 19-year-old named Lana and quickly becomes part of her circle: Lana's mother, a few female friends, and two ex-cons named John Lotter and Tom Nissen.
The actress begins disastrously, throwing her own tantrum on a New Hampshire runway.
Once Bradley descends from his pedestal and begins trading insults with Gore, he loses his aura of saintliness and becomes just another scrapping politician.