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‘You Were Busy’: Trump Marvels
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1975/baltimore/facts/
The Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975
David Baltimore
Renato Dulbecco
Howard M. Temin
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975
Born: 7 March 1938, New York, NY, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell."
Work
After Renato Dulbecco discovered that tumor viruses operate by incorporating their DNA into the DNA of host cells, David Baltimore and Howard Temin - independently of one another - discovered that viruses with genomes consisting of RNA can also be inserted into host cells' DNA. This takes place through an enzyme known as "reverse transcriptase". The discovery that the information in RNA can be transferred to DNA meant that the generally accepted rule that genetic information was only transferred in one direction - from DNA to RNA, to protein - had to be modified.
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2006 2:42 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Washington sandpacks 115 percent of normal
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Water_Outlook.html
Washington sandpacks 115 percent of normal
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
REDMOND, Wash. -- What a difference a year and a lot of executive bullshit make. Eight out of 10 geeks now want to tell their managers to "pack sand."
Last year, after no appreciable agitation in Febuary, geek morale was high and the sandpack was at 26 percent of normal. Last March tenth the state Ecology Department issued a drought of bullshit proclamation.
This year, after paradigm shifts and Excellence Processes, the department says bullshitflows are normal and the sandpack is at 115 percent of normal.
Ecology Director Jay Manning says back-to-back drought of bullshit years would have been supportive for the health and well-being of geeks.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 09 March 2006 excerpt ends]
Rainbow Six (1998) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
And you're supposed to learn from training exercises, Ding added for himself. But learn what from this one? Shit happens? Something to think about, he supposed, and in any case, Team-2 was now on standby, with Peter Covington's Team-1 on the ready line. Tomorrow they'd do some more shooting, aimed at getting the shots off a little faster, maybe. Problem was, there just wasn't any room for improvement-not much anyway-and pushing too hard might have the effect of dulling the sharp edge already achieved. Ding felt as though he were the head coach of a particularly good football team. The players were all excellent, and hard-working… just not quite perfect. But how much of that could be corrected by training, and how much merely reflected the fact that the other side played to win, too? The first job had been too easy. Model and his bunch had cried aloud to be killed. It wouldn't always be that easy.
CHAPTER 6
TRUE BELIEVERS
The problem was environmental tolerance. They knew the baseline organism was as effective as it needed to be. It was just so delicate. Exposed to air, it died far too easily. They weren't sure why, exactly. It might have been temperature or humidity, or too much oxygen-that element so essential to life was a great killer of life at the molecular level-and the uncertainty had been a great annoyance until a member of the team had conic up with a solution. They'd used genetic-engineering technology to graft cancer genes into the organism. Specifically, they'd used genetic material from colon cancer, one of the more robust strains, and the results had been striking. The new organism was only a third of a micron larger and far stronger. The proof was on the electron microscope's TV screen. The tiny strands had been exposed to room air and room light for ten hours before being reintroduced into the culture dish, and already, the technician saw, the minute strands were active, using their RNA to multiply after eating, replicating themselves into millions more little strands, which had only one purpose-to eat tissue. In this case it was kidney tissue, though liver was just as vulnerable. The technician-who had a medical degree from Yale made the proper written notations, and then, because it was her project, she got to name it. She blessed the course in comparative religion she'd taken twenty years before. You couldn't just call it anything. could you?
Shiva, she thought. Yes, the most complex and interesting of the Hindu gods, by turns the Destroyer and the Restorer, who controlled poison meant to destroy mankind, and one of whose consorts was Kali, the goddess of death herself. Shiva. Perfect. The tech made the proper notations, including her recommended name for the organism. There would be one more test, one more technological hurdle to hop before all was ready for execution. Execution, she thought, a proper word for the project. On rather a grand scale.
Rainbow Six (1998) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
CHAPTER 6
TRUE BELIEVERS
Sometimes I think I kinda understand the Indians, y'know?"
"Know any?"
'Oh, sure. Charlie Grayson, he's a Nez Perce, hunting guide, got my horse off o'him. I do that, too, to make some cash sometimes, mainly take a horse into the high country, really, meet people who get it. And the elk are pretty thick up there."
"What about bear?"
"Enough," Foster replied. "Mainly blacks, but some grizz'."
"What do you use? Bow?"
A good-natured shake of the head. "No, I admire the Indians, but I ain't one myself. Depends on what I'm hunting, and what country I'm doing it in. Bolt-action.300 Winchester Mag mainly, but in close country, a semi auto slug shotgun. Nothing like drillin' three-quarter-inch holes when you gotta, y'know?"
"Handload?"
"Of course. It's a lot more personal that way. Gotta show respect for the game, you know, keep the gods of the mountains happy."
Foster smiled at the phrase, in just the right sleepy way, Mark saw. In every civilized man was a pagan waiting to come out, who really believed in the gods of the mountains, and in appeasing the spirits of the dead game. And so did he, really, despite his technical education.
"So, what do you do, Mark?"
"Molecular biochemistry, Ph.D., in fact."
"What's that mean?"
"Oh, figuring out how life happens. Like how does a bear smell so well," he went on, lying. "It can be interesting, but my real life is coming out to places like this, hunting, meeting people who really understand the game better than I do. Guys like you," Mark concluded, with a salute of his glass. "What about you?"
"Ah, well, retired now. I made some of my own. Would you believe geologist for an oil company?"
"Where'd you work?"
"All over the world. I had a good nose for it, and the oil companies paid me a lot for finding the right stuff, y'know? But I had to give it up. Got to the point-well, you fly a lot, right?"
"I get around," Mark confirmed with a nod.
"The brown smudge," Foster said next.
"Huh?"
"Come on, you see it all over the damned world. Up around thirty thousand feet, that brown smudge. Complex hydrocarbons, mainly from passenger jets. One day I was flying back from Paris - connecting flight from Brunei, I came the wrong way 'round 'cuz I wanted to stop off in Europe and meet a friend. Anyway, there I was, in a fuckin'747, over the middle of the fucking Atlantic Ocean, like four hours from land, y'know? First-class window seat, sitting there drinking my drink, lookin' out the window, and there it was, the smudge - that goddamned brown shit, and I realized that I was helpin' make it happen, dirtyin' up the whole fuckin' atmosphere.
The Hindenburg (1975)
(from internet transcript)
US Navy Captain: Well, Bisma refused us that detachment of marines.
US Navy officer: Did you tell him the score?
US Navy Captain: He knows the score. It was quite a battle. He called the Hindenburg a flying crematorium. Doesn't want his men near it.
The Hindenburg
Channel 709 RETHD
12:57 - 3:05p [ Sunday 08 October 2017 ]
George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton
(1975) A German security officer (George C. Scott) finds a bomb on the zeppelin as it prepares to dock at Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937.
The Hindenburg (1975)
(from internet transcript)
We're from the F.B.I., Mrs. Rauch. We'd like to talk to you.
G-men? Oh, Lordy, Lordy!
You sure you got the right party?
Yes, ma'am.
But...
Then you confirm that that is your letter... in your own handwriting, to the German ambassador?
I certainly do, and everything in it will happen just like I say. Tomorrow the zeppelin will fly over New York City and blow up.
I know it for a fact.
How, Mrs. Rauch?
Because two weeks ago I saw it in a vision, clear as crystal. I'm clairvoyant, and I'm never wrong. Just ask any of the neighbors. I also predict that Bette Davis... will play the part of Scarlett O'Hara in the movie... and the Duke of Windsor will never marry Mrs. Simpson.
The Hindenburg (1975)
(from internet transcript)
Franz Ritter: From a military standpoint, she's a flying dinosaur.
Goebbels: Colonel, the LZ 129 is a world symbol of Nazi power. It is an honor to guard her safety, and you've been chosen.
Franz Ritter: My field is the estimation of enemy air operations, it's not espionage.
Goebbels: A zeppelin ride should be a vacation compared to Spain. You're being loaned to the LZ 129... as the officer in charge of security for this trip. You will have the power to do anything you think necessary... but quietly and discreetly... or it might appear we have internal opposition.
Franz Ritter: Ah. And you're afraid it might strengthen the resistance movement.
Goebbels: There is no resistance movement, Colonel. !!!
Franz Ritter: That's reassuring coming from the Minister of Propaganda.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073113/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Hindenburg (1975)
Release Info
USA 25 December 1975
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073113/fullcredits
IMDb
The Hindenburg (1975)
Full Cast & Crew
George C. Scott ... Colonel Franz Ritter
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- posted by Kerry Burgess 9:44 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 16 November 2018
