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Clear-cutting will destroy healthy and unhealthy trees alike, allow grass to take root, and impede reforestation for decades to come.
Several methods are available to assay discontinuities in DNA, and for many applications, one of the several current methods may suffice [ 30 ] [ 31 32 33 34 35 36 ] . DNA backbone interruptions are key intermediates in genetic metabolism [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] [ 40 ] [ 41 42 ] [ 43 ] . Chemotherapy [ 44 ] , ionizing radiation [ 45 ] and dietary mutagens [ 46 ] also cause distributed DNA strand interruptions [ 47 ] . Chemical modifications [ 48 49 50 ] [ 51 ] need not break the DNA backbone to impede the progress of DNA polymerase.
The ability to independently voice security concerns to senior executives was viewed as important because such concerns could often be at odds with business managers' and system developers' desires to implement new computer applications quickly and avoid controls that would impede efficiency, user friendliness, and convenience.
His career is an unblemished half century of efforts to impede progress, inflame race relations, and squelch good government.