Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 8:22:45 PM CET
Researchers Translate DNA Code As Music
Imagine the human genome as music. Unravel DNA's double helix, picture its components lined up like piano keys and assign a note to each. Run your finger along the keys. Spanish scientists did that just for fun and recorded what they call an audio version of the blueprint for life.
The team at Madrid's Ramon y Cajal Hospital was intrigued by music's lure — how it can make toddlers dance and adults cry — and looked for hints in the genetic material that makes us what we are. They also had some microbial genes wax melodic.
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Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 8:19:28 PM CET
Oh man! Look at those spacemen go ...
The United States hopes to send an astronaut to Mars in a nuclear-powered rocket, according to a senior Nasa official. Under the space agency's ambitious plan, humans would be sent on a two-month journey to Mars in a spaceship travelling at three times the current speed of space travel.
President George Bush may announce the plan, named Project Prometheus, at his State of the Union address on January 28, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. It would commit the US to the exploration of Mars as a priority and herald the development of a nuclear-powered propulsion system. The first voyage could take place as soon as 2010.
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Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 7:15:26 PM CET
Rock Fans to Bid for Rare Lennon/Jagger Recording
If rock and roll fans could conjure up their dream recording date, it might be a jam session between Beatle John Lennon and Rolling Stone Mick Jagger.
Tom Fisher said on Saturday he had bought the unmarked record from another collector. When he listened to it, he was convinced it was Jagger on vocals, singing a raucous old blues song called "Too Many Cooks."
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Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 6:49:07 PM CET
The Simpsons to become longest-running TV comedy
Don't have a cow, man - you're going to be able to watch new episodes of "The Simpsons" until at least May 2005.
According to industry magazine Variety, Fox Entertainment approved the extension, making the Emmy-winning animated show the longest running comedy in U.S. television history.
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Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 6:42:48 PM CET
Videotape of Diana Ross December DUI
arrest released by Tucson police Friday night shows an officer responding to her concerns over public disclosure of the incident and the singer shivering from the cold.
All of Ross' statements were removed from the 42-minute tape, under a court order that allowed it to be screened by her lawyers before being made public. It was released to 22 media organizations, some of which staked out police headquarters for several hours waiting for the tape.
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Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 6:39:12 PM CET
Music Exec: ISPs Must Pay Up for Music-Swapping
A top music executive said on Saturday that telecommunications companies and Internet service providers (ISPs) will be asked to pay up for giving their customers access to free song-swapping sites.
The music industry is in a tailspin with global sales of CDs expected to fall six percent in 2003, its fourth consecutive annual decline. A major culprit, industry watchers say, is online piracy.
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Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 6:37:42 PM CET
Microsoft Introduces CD Copy-Protection Fix
Microsoft Corp. announced on Saturday the introduction of new digital rights software aimed at helping music labels control unauthorized copying of CDs, one of the biggest thorns in the ailing industry's side. Stung by the common practice of consumers copying, or "burning," new versions of a store-bought CD onto recordable CDs, music companies have invested heavily in copy-protection technologies that have mainly backfired or annoyed customers.
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Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 6:32:33 PM CET
Bible college shuns 666 phone number
"People say, 'You're a Bible college and you have 666 in your phone number?"' said Carlene Light, an office worker at Kentucky Mountain Bible College. "It's the connotation. No one wants to be part of the mark of the beast."
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Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 6:25:44 PM CET
Credit card that tells you when you're drunk in charge
A credit card that tells you "Don't spend any more money, you're far too drunk" is being developed by Tesco as a service to those whose thrift with money is addled by alcohol. When breathed on, the card will change colour to show different levels of alcohol intake. Its use as a sobriety test in Tesco supermarkets may reduce the stores' takings at the checkout. But the chain is hoping that its scope as a do-it-yourself breathalyser will lead more people to apply for it.
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Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 6:21:30 PM CET
Safari
Safari offers you a superior Web experience with outstanding performance. Even the most complex of pages load at breakneck speed. In fact, Safari loads pages more quickly than any other Mac Web browser. But that’s not all. Safari uses the advanced interface technologies underlying Mac OS X to offer you an all-new view of the Web, one that’s much easier to use.
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Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 6:15:49 PM CET
Scientists explain Arctic stone circles
Researchers may have an explanation for the natural near-perfect circles of stones that cover the ground in parts of Alaska and the Norwegian islands of Spitsbergen. According to scientists, the circles are not the result of ancient art but due to cyclic freezing and thawing of the ground that drives a simple feedback mechanism that generates the patterns.
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Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 6:11:02 PM CET
Is Segway going anywhere?
Kamen’s trouble finding a market is a reminder that a novel idea isn’t necessarily a hot one. Dean Kamen has some awfully impressive accomplishments under his belt. The self-taught inventor has made millions on such breakthrough devices as a stent to keep arteries clear and a portable dialysis machine for kidney patients. So will he notch up another win with his latest project, the much-hyped Segway Human Transporter?
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