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Sep. 23rd, 2005 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingAn Oxford research team has managed to introduce a synthetic gene into live hamsters in such a way that the gene is then expressed in mature sperm. The gene in question, which was nicked from a jellyfish, makes the sperm a lovely fluorescent green.
Traditionally, playing around with a sperm cell's genetic makeup has been tricky. Unlike many other cells, which can be grown and genetically modified in a petri dish, sperm cells are very small, oddly shaped and very short lived when taken out of the body, making it impossible to grow sperm cell cultures.
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A federal jury awarded an Egyptian-born radiologist nearly $2.5 million for invasion of privacy after a property manager searched his apartment and called police on Sept. 11, 2001.
Sherri Lynn Wilson had entered Basem M.F. Hussein's apartment in Coraopolis the day of the attacks to replace furnace filters, according to testimony. She told the FBI she saw Arabic literature, an airplane flight manual, a compact disc jacket that showed an exploding airplane, and chemical residue she believed to be from bomb-making activities.
What she actually saw was a popular flight simulator computer game and its CD jacket, which did not depict an exploding airplane, Hussein's attorney said. The purported Arabic literature was an English version of the Koran; the chemical residue was household dust. Hussein was awarded $850,000 in compensatory damages and $1.6 million in punitive damages.
Hussein, 40, a permanent U.S. resident who has lived in the United States and Canada since age 6, was working in New Mexico when his apartment was searched. He was handcuffed, detained, fingerprinted, interviewed and cleared by FBI officials there.
When he returned to his Meadows apartment, he found he had been evicted.
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Representative of the Finnish version of the RIAA : "Now, we need to understand that listening to music on your computer is an extra privilege. Normally people listen to music on their car or through their home stereos,"
"If you are a Linux or Mac user, you should consider purchasing a regular CD player."
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Traditionally, playing around with a sperm cell's genetic makeup has been tricky. Unlike many other cells, which can be grown and genetically modified in a petri dish, sperm cells are very small, oddly shaped and very short lived when taken out of the body, making it impossible to grow sperm cell cultures.
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A federal jury awarded an Egyptian-born radiologist nearly $2.5 million for invasion of privacy after a property manager searched his apartment and called police on Sept. 11, 2001.
Sherri Lynn Wilson had entered Basem M.F. Hussein's apartment in Coraopolis the day of the attacks to replace furnace filters, according to testimony. She told the FBI she saw Arabic literature, an airplane flight manual, a compact disc jacket that showed an exploding airplane, and chemical residue she believed to be from bomb-making activities.
What she actually saw was a popular flight simulator computer game and its CD jacket, which did not depict an exploding airplane, Hussein's attorney said. The purported Arabic literature was an English version of the Koran; the chemical residue was household dust. Hussein was awarded $850,000 in compensatory damages and $1.6 million in punitive damages.
Hussein, 40, a permanent U.S. resident who has lived in the United States and Canada since age 6, was working in New Mexico when his apartment was searched. He was handcuffed, detained, fingerprinted, interviewed and cleared by FBI officials there.
When he returned to his Meadows apartment, he found he had been evicted.
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Representative of the Finnish version of the RIAA : "Now, we need to understand that listening to music on your computer is an extra privilege. Normally people listen to music on their car or through their home stereos,"
"If you are a Linux or Mac user, you should consider purchasing a regular CD player."
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"Ask Jeeves to axe Jeeves"
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Study shows that users don't know what they're doing, water is wet, fire is hot, and many other new and startling revelations.
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Outsourcing propaganda.
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Date: 2005-09-23 08:23 pm (UTC)things like "jpeg," "javascript," and "cookie" do not to my mind equal technical freaking jargon. At least, not if you have a job that takes you anywhere NEAR a computer
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Date: 2005-09-23 08:32 pm (UTC)