Whether he was right or wrong, he was demonstrating an impulse that is embedded into the DNA code of almost every political player and observer I know: the desire to figure out what other campaign year the current one is like.

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Akamai engineers in Cambridge, Mass. are constantly preparing newer, faster servers the size of pizza boxes--cheap off-the-shelf machines embedded with special Akamai DNA--and deploying them to the farthest edges of the network.

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Your list will also reveal the skills and capacities that are so embedded in your work DNA you may forget to see them as bargaining chips in selling Brand You in your next negotiation.

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This vast majority of genetic material known as functional noncoding DNA, mostly embedded within and around the genes, was thought to play an important but murky role in regulating how the coding genes go about their business.

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Embedded in each set of 23 chromosomes are 3 billion base pairs of DNA, known by the letters A, T, C and G, for the chemical bases adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine.

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