It's the 21st century version of "guns or butter?"

The project would determine the sequence of the DNA in at least 12,500 tumor samples, 250 samples from each of 50 major types of cancer. By comparing the order of the letters of the genetic code in the tumor samples with one another and with sequences in healthy tissue, it should be possible to pinpoint mutations responsible for cancer.

But the proposition is extremely daunting. In general, each tumor cell holds a full panoply of human DNA, a string of three billion letters of the genetic code. So determining the full sequence of all the tumors would be the equivalent of 12,500 human genome projects. At a cost of many millions of dollars for one genome, the full project would be out of the question for now.

So the cancer proposal for now is to sequence only the active genes in tumors, which make up 1 percent to 2 percent of the DNA. Even that would require at least 100 times as much sequencing as the Human Genome Project.

In Battling Cancer, a Genome Project Is Proposed

] Badly-executed logo for a pediatric center in Virginia.

[Yowza! The designer was either a jerk, or so mentally chaste that they never noticed the connotation. Fucking dolts. -k]

Wow that's impressive.

Boing Boing: Pediatric center's bad logo

] In all the debate about "what Terri would have wanted"
] people seem to be forgetting that her vegetative state
] was initially caused by anorexia and bulimia. She was
] TRYING to starve herself. Let her finish.

Official reply: "Teehee!"

Coming soon: "If I only had a brain", the Terri Schiavo made for TV movie.

Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey: Oh, just let Terri Schiavo finish what she started already!

] The images above - exclusive to the Wooster site and
] provided by Banksy - are of Banksy installing four pieces
] in New York's most prestigious museums - The Brooklyn
] Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of
] Modern Art, and the Museum of Natural History.
]
] Dressed as a British pensioner, over the last few days
] Banksy entered each of the galleries and attached one of
] his own works, complete with authorative name plaque and
] explanation.

Wooster Collective : Stickers / Posters / Graf / Culture Jamming

] Shortly after three eight-year-old boys were found
] mutilated and murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, local
] newspapers stated the killers had been caught. The police
] assured the public that the three teenagers in custody
] were definitely responsible for these horrible crimes.
] Evidence?

] The same police officers coerced an error-filled
] "Confession" from Jessie Misskelley Jr., who is
] mentally handicapped. They subjected him to 12 hours of
] questioning without counsel or parental consent,
] audio-taping only two fragments totaling 46 minutes.
] Jessie recanted it that evening, but it was too
] late Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols
] were all arrested on June 3, 1993, and convicted of
] murder in early 1994.

] Although there was no physical evidence, murder weapon,
] motive, or connection to the victims, the prosecution
] pathetically resorted to presenting black hair and
] clothing, heavy metal t-shirts, and Stephen King novels
] as proof that the boys were sacrificed in a satanic cult
] ritual. Unfathomably, Echols was sentenced to death,
] Baldwin received life without parole, and Misskelley got
] life plus 40.

] For over 11 years, The West Memphis Three have been
] imprisoned for crimes they didn't commit. Echols
] waits in solitary confinement for the lethal injection
] our tax dollars will pay for. They were all condemned by
] their poverty, incompetent defense, satanic panic and a
] rush to judgment.

The West Memphis 3

] (CNN) -- A student on Monday killed two of his
] grandparents, then went on a shooting rampage at his
] Minnesota high school, killing seven people and wounding
] as many as 13 others before killing himself, officials
] said.

Not again. Where is the handbasket.

CNN.com - Officials: Student's rampage leaves 10 dead - Mar 22, 2005

Some of you probably missed nano's meme here. This is the most substantive scientific data I've seen about this case. Cat scan pictures are fairly telling. As for the ins and outs, I don't know them all. Politically this case is not particularly compelling, mostly because of this data. But the religious people want to believe that a miracle can happen here and they are fighting for it. I could save 10 lives a year with the money spent keeping this woman alive, but its too easy. There is no divinity in addressing the problems men can solve. To pick your fights is to accept that the omnipotent is limited. What is the point of saving people if there is no God to reward you for it?

Schiavo case

I watched the debate. I could not believe how some members of congress struggled with the word AUTONOMOUS. Half looked like they were reading something - and couldn't read.

It was so very political. They were so transparent. Our country is clearly in trouble.

Congress Condemns Schiavo to Undeath!

] John Z. DeLorean, an automotive innovator who left
] General Motors Corp. to develop a radically futuristic
] sports car, has died at age 80.

] He was among just a handful of U.S. entrepreneurs to
] start a car company in the last 75 years.

] While apt to be remembered as the man behind the car
] modified for time travel in the ''Back to the Future''
] movies, Mr. DeLorean left a powerful imprint in
] automaking built on unique, souped-up cars.

John DeLorean dies

noteworthy wrote:
] Decius wrote:
] ] "The Mashin' of the Christ" was/is Negativland's
] ] top-secret-not-for-viewing video response to the number one
] ] film in America.
]
] None of the torrents work.

Are you offering content to the torrent network? I'm not, and I get not clients. I think I've heard that this does exist, thought...

Dru and Rain had it playing at their apartment the other night. I does in fact exist

RE: 'The Mashin' of the Christ'