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A photograph on the front
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The caption said repairs to
the complex “could run to
$].5 million according to
Wismer & Mathieson.”

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clarify that Wismer &
Mathieson clearly stated that
$1.2 million had already been
spent on repairs by the strata
council and that the total bill
could reach $1.5 million.
Owners at 999 Berkley wish
to emphasize that their com-
plex is not facing an additional
bill of $1.5 million in repairs.

news of the weird

As the worm’s
genes turn

AFTER biologists announced
in December that, for the first
time, they had mapped out all
of the DNA of a multicell ani-
mal (a microscopic round-
worm, with 19,099) genes),
coll es told The New York
Times that the revelation had
a profound effect. on their

to do the same some-
day for humans.

Said the president of the
National Academy
Sciences, “In the last 10 ¥
we hi come to realiz
hunians ore like worms

imagined.”
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According to an) April
Associated Press report, the
University of Hlinois managed
to find women to fill all 15
laboratory positions in: which
the only job is ro. sniff pig
manure. They work three
hours a week ar S15
attempting to reco
tain chemical markers in the
manure so that researchers
can ascertain which foods are
responsibie for making pig
manure 50 foul-smeiling.

The university sought only
females because estrogen
improves sensitivity to smells.

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