While on the subject of British contributions, we'd be remiss to exclude Heston Blumenthal's modern classic: his signature snail porridge, which appropriates breakfast's oaty staple.
Senate Appropriates Committee conferees, who today secured funding for 10 additional C-17 airlifters, are to be commended for recognizing the inadvisability of terminating the production line of the Nation's only highly capable, heavy-lift transport aircraft.
In research published in tomorrow's issue of Cell, scientists at Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics (nasdaq: MYGN - news - people ) and the University of Utah identify exactly which protein the virus appropriates in this microscopic hijacking.