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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (50982)	5/23/2000 8:51:00 AM
From: Justin C	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

When my brothers and I were kids, we would tape a small firecracker to the back of a cicada (aka noisy locust). Then we would light the 'cracker and the bug would fly off, soon to become a bomb bursting in the night sky. This was just before the delayed advent of television in my part of the world, when we had to come up with our own entertainment on summer evenings.

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (50982)	5/23/2000 1:28:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 71178

When my pals and I were kids we built ourselves a sparkler cannon..... BTW, meant to ask you something about this... These pals of yours... Did any of them ever mention wanting to attach a few weather balloons to a lawnchair?? Just kinda wondering...

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (50982)	5/23/2000 2:19:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Interesting article in today's Washington Post about the Human Genome Project - might be good for a few points on Celera or Incyte? But a careful reading reveals that after the human genome is finally sequenced, treatment breakthroughs are going to be slow. This week's Nature magazine has a five page fold-out illustration of the DNA sequence of human chromosome 21 (by far the smallest chromosome) - 127 known genes, 98 predicted genes, and 59 pseudogenes, whatever that is, but researchers only know what a fraction of the genes do. In case you're wondering, the authors of the Nature article all work for research centers like Institut fur Molekulare Biotechnologie, National Cancer Research Institute, University of Tokyo, University of London, etc. No hot stock tip there. washingtonpost.com