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While companies once mined scents from natural sources such as "the anuses of a mongoose-like African animal called a civet," they now use computers and chemical synthesis to create new scents: After sampling odors and digitizing their chemical makeup, scent-creators change various elements to derive a new smell.
And perhaps there is a rich vein of Bush loathing waiting to be mined.
Nevertheless, DNA microarrays have been successfully applied in the analysis of aging and caloric restriction [ 13 ] and pulmonary fibrosis [ 14 ] . And many publications, particularly on cancer, have appeared [ 14 15 16 17 18 19 ] . Affymetrix has recently announced the availability of the U133 GeneChip series with 33,000 well-characterized human genes mined from genomic sequence.
Presidents and their speech writers have mined their predecessors for memorable words and repeated them without attribution.
Some excise taxes (considered to be benefit taxes) are levied on bases that are related to the use of publicly provided goods and services or the public provision of other benefits, such as the gasoline tax; certain other excise taxes are levied on bases related to a cause of some damage and are dedicated to pay down costs, such as the tax on domestically mined coal, which is dedicated to the black lung disability trust fund.