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Its young protagonist, Harry Odum (Norman Reedus), a fry-cook in the postindustrial wasteland that is Youngstown, Ohio, lives with a shut-in mother, Kate (Deborah Harry), who has contrived to keep him in a state of sexual ignorance.
, [ 6 20 ] ]. The view of heterochromatin as a genetic wasteland gradually changed with the mapping of a number of functionally important Drosophila genes to constitutive heterochromatin [e.g.
Once a poor fishing village and wasteland believed to be inhabited by bad spirits, by the 1980s it was transformed into a frenetic scene, fueled by plenty of alcohol and, for a while, illegal drugs.
The park was once a wasteland of sand dunes and scrub, but it was then transformed into lush parkland by the efforts of John McLaren, the park superintendent for 50 years, until his death in 1943.
Ruschhaupt and colleagues comment that “the literature on the induction of prognostic profiles from microarray studies is a methodological wasteland.”