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Paved with good intentions.(The Case for Genetic Screening)(Book review)
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Heredity and Hope
The Case for Genetic Screening
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Harvard University Press, $27.95, 304 pp.
In Heredity and Hope, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, professor of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, has written an informative and readable history of genetic screening. She walks the reader through the complex and sometimes controversial practices that have created the new field of genetic medicine. As for the claim in the subtitle, The Case for Genetic Screening, well, on that score: caveat lector!
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French fight for Carnac to stay in the Stone Age
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...conglomeration of neolithic standing stones at Carnac in Brittany, the largest site of its...seized control of the central group of Carnac menhirs, or standing stones. They fear...Since 1991, the principal groups of Carnac stones have been fenced in by ugly, green...
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INT Launches New Java 2D And 3D Graphics Toolkits; J/Carnac and J/View3D For Data Visualization Debut at Java One.
Business Wire
; ...stated that their Beta 1 version of J/Carnac, a Java 2D(TM) graphics toolkit...marketplace by developing toolkits such as J/Carnac and J/View3D," said Graeme Wallace...applications before the end of the year." J/Carnac -- 2D Extensibility J/Carnac(TM...
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INT Targets Java-Based Geoscience Graphics Programmers and Users With New J/GeoToolkit; J/GeoToolkit Powered by INT's J/Carnac Technology.
Business Wire
; ...XY-plots. The toolkit is powered by J/Carnac(tm), INT's new Java, Web-enabled Carnac(tm) graphics technology that offers geoscience...employing a high-speed rendering engine, J/Carnac can handle up to millions of spatially related...
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Carnac knowledge
Newspaper article from: Evening Mail
; ...much, much more to offer. We had chosen Carnac for our two-week Eurocamp holiday...12 hours later we were on the road to Carnac. Our destination was La Grande Metairie...relaxing in the bar at night. But the Carnac area demands detailed exploration - the...
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 "Birmingham Evening Mail (England)")
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Carnac knowledge.
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
; ...much, much more to offer. We had chosen Carnac for our two-week Eurocamp holiday...12 hours later we were on the road to Carnac. Our destination was La Grande Metairie...relaxing in the bar at night. But the Carnac area demands detailed exploration - the...
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INT Debuts New Dedicated Java Graphics Website; j-extreme.int.com Will Offer Free Downloads Of J/Carnac and J/View3D.
Business Wire
; ...Java 2D and 3D graphics toolkits -- J/Carnac and J/View3D -- for free, along with...performance toolkits. Second, confident in J/Carnac and J/View3D's technical functionality...tools and to Java." The Versatile J/Carnac J/Carnac provides a simple to learn...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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SKANEATELES, CARNAC STYLE.(Neighbors West)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; ...The late Johnny Carson became famous for his Carnac skit, where he held up an envelope, stated...reveal the question. Here's a history of Carnac; see how much history you know: Carnac Answer No. 1. 16 miles 2. 863 feet 3. Long...
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Megaliths on Brittany's coast. (Carnac, France)
Magazine article from: Sunset
; ...and tombs still stand near the town of Carnac, and you can see most of them on a self...the western end of the Loire Valley, Carnac is a 2-hour drive northwest. From Paris...Rouzic Museum of Prehistory in downtown Carnac, with exhibits of pottery, stones...
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 "AAP General News (Australia)")
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WA: Sea lions to be protected at Carnac Island
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia)
; ...2003 WA: Sea lions to be protected at Carnac Island PERTH, Oct 5 AAP - Australian...Australian has released a management plan for Carnac Island Nature Reserve, located 10km south...seal species. Premier Geoff Gallop said Carnac Island was a jewel in Perth's marine...
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Past records, new views: Carnac 1830-2000.
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; The megalithic monuments of Carnac, Brittany, in the Departement of the Morbihan, are amongst the...appeared in English, beginning with Alexander Logan's account of Carnac in the Archaeologia for 1825, making known the work of French scholars...
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