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The remaining gene products were given one of the following three assignments: 'conserved protein', where sequence-similar matches were found but the function could not be determined in the absence of consistent functions reported for the matching sequences; 'conserved hypothetical protein', where sequence-similar matches existed but these had no associated function; 'unknown CDS', where the translated sequence had no known sequence match outside E. coli.
A NYT front-pager brings word that just eight days after salvaging his career from a controversy over his lifting material from a book, longtime Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle resigned yesterday after it was revealed that there was no evidence two people he wrote about in a 1995 column had ever existed.
"There has always existed the import of U.S. culture.
Mixed-race people were initially treated as a "new people" who existed in the space between white and black and deserved a status not quite as high as whites but higher than that of black people in general.
Microsoft is giving away Internet Explorer 4.0 now, but who thinks they would have acted this way if Netscape had not existed?