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As noted earlier, more than half of the differentially expressed genes in the present collection can be classified as rarely transcribed on the basis of their representation by six or fewer ESTs among the more than 100,000 Arabidopsis ESTs sequenced.
Related tribes, who had earlier travelled northwest while the Magyars migrated west, ended up in Finland.
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, whom Clinton visited earlier this year, is hardly better, it added.
Greater reductions earlier than expected have lowered risks to human health and provided benefits to the environment sooner.
Because the EPA has no authority to change the current Clean Air Act standards before model year 2004, implementation of the voluntary program will result in substantially reduced exhaust pollutants nationwide earlier than could otherwise be achieved because of the more stringent standards of this rule.