The culprit was apparently a mix-up between the similarly pronounced cities and the three-letter code used by airlines to distinguish airports.
Unlike in the Volker case, she examines the entire 6 billion-letter DNA code.
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The three-letter airport code on the tickets issued to the couple by the airline read DAC, the code for the airport in Dhaka.
More than half a million single letter variations in the DNA code were analysed in men in the UK and Australia.
There was a secret deciphering office in London, a successor to the Post Office's foreign letter office, and another code-breaking unit in the Admiralty, both of which cracked Napoleon's codes, as did the bureau noir attached to every European government (though the Austrians reckoned their best intelligence came from the emperor's pillow talk).
Last year, Bruno Grandi, the president of the International Gymnastics Federation, known as FIG, said in an open letter there was a problem with the Code of Points, the rule book that describes how many points gymnasts get for certain moves but he stopped short of saying it was causing injuries.
It works because many cases of muscular dystrophy are caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene (incidentally, one of the longest genes in the body) that make the entire genetic code for the protein shift by one letter.
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Since machines understand text as a series of numbers, which users see on screen as letters or characters, they developed a standard called Unicode that assigns a unique code to every glyph, character or letter in the world's written languages.
And Digg, like many other sites that revealed the HD-DVD code, has already been sent a cease and desist letter from the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), a digital rights management development group that includes the fearsome lineup of the Walt Disney Co.
At the WSJ, where one bunch of stars and dashes recalled the letter A, the "A-hed" started out as just another headline code.
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These money laundries, organized as 501(c)(4) groups under the Internal Revenue Code, violate the spirit of the tax laws and may well violate the letter of the law as well.
He had complained to his boss, and eventually wrote a letter in May 2008 to senior Lehman executives expressing concern that the Repo 105 transactions violated Lehman's ethics code by misleading investors and regulators about the true value of the firm's assets.
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