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DNA Blueprints Guide The Construction Of Specific Human Structures
Chad Mirkin discusses using DNA to build a three-dimensional structure out of gold, likening the process to building a house. Starting with basic materials such as bricks, wood, siding, stone and shingles, a construction team can build many different types of houses out of the same building blocks.
The article includes an audio recording of the full interview. Photo courtesy of the UCSD School of Medicine.
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Sue To Block Proposed Same-sex Constitutional Amendment
Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Five straight couples, mostly senior citizens, say the broadly written Arizona marriage amendment would oblige them to marry or lose Social Security.
Opponents of Arizona's proposed same-sex constitutional marriage ban sued Wednesday to keep it off the Nov. 7 ballot, saying the measure violates the state's "single-subject rule" for voter initiatives. "The initiative seeks to discriminate against several different classes of people," attorney Michael T. Liburdi for Arizona Together told reporters Wednesday at Tucson City Hall. "These issues must be separate and independent," Liburdi said.
The plaintiffs are five heterosexual couples, mostly senior citizens, who say the broadly written initiative would strip them of domestic-partner status they receive from various cities in the state.
A court is expected to rule within six weeks, because Arizona requires a lawsuit to be decided before ballots are printed.
But Georgia's Supreme Court this month rejected a similar claim that an amendment passed by voters in 2004 violated that state's single-subject rule.
Arizona Together treasurer Steve May, a former state lawmaker, said the initiative would ban civil unions and repeal domestic-partner benefits established by Phoenix, Tempe, Tucson, Tempe and Pima County, among other jurisdictions.
"The only way they can pass them is to tack them on to a gay-marriage ban," May told the Arizona Republic. "If they had just done a ban on same-sex marriage they would have had a slam-dunk . . . they just got greedy."
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