It's such a big-hearted gesture it verges on old fashioned, which says a lot about how twisted and double-barreled our "entertainment" has gotten to be in the past 20 years.

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Even though it is twisted up into the famous double helix, all that matters is the order of the bases that form it.

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And if it is twisted twice, the particle gains double the charge.

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Each DNA molecule in the body contains two long strands of chemical letters, or bases--A, T, C and G--that come together like a twisted ladder (a.k.a. the double helix).

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The Nan-Shan was being looted by the storm with a senseless, destructive fury: trysails torn out of the extra gaskets, double-lashed awnings blown away, bridge swept clean, weather-cloths burst, rails twisted, light-screens smashed and two of the boats had gone already.

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