Employees being exposed to TB, HIV, and anthrax might be a normal hazard of the work, but throwing out a mouse with Qfever? Ordinary incompetence...but what about failure to report to the CDC when a worker came down with Brucellosis does make one wonder...
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Geneticist Ray Wu died...he invented a way to sequence DNA...
Wu's group used the novel genetic engineering techniques they developed to insert foreign genes into rice; the idea was to improve yields of cereal crops in the developing world. A technique he developed in 2002 for producing high-yield rice resistant to environmental factors such as drought, salinity and insect attack is now being developed for commercial use, Cornell geneticist Susan McCouch told the Los Angeles Times. "Where rice is grown, everyone knows Ray Wu," she said.
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Robert Jastrow of NASA has also died..
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Cinametographer David Watkins has died...The visual beauty of the film Out of Africa and other films has been compared to Vermeer...
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For Ubuntu geeks waiting for Hardy Heron to be released n April, just remember, Intrepid Ibex is waiting in the wings...October 2008...it will concentrate on mobile web access...
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Want to know what's an Ibex? LINK...want to hunt one? Try the New Mexico mountains...
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