To be fair to the former home secretary and Labour member for Norwich South, he was key to securing the A11 development - in a cross-party allegiance with Richard Spring, the former Conservative MP for West Suffolk.

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The machines "are changing everything, and it's only going to be limited by our imagination what we can do with them, " says W. Richard McCombie, a researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who is on the hunt for cancer genes.

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Also at the Tate Modern, this spring, is the first retrospective to encompass the full scope of pop artist Richard Hamilton's 60-year career.

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As Lyndon Johnson escalated America's involvement in Vietnam in spring 1965, he was already thinking about how any sign of "weakness" would benefit Richard Nixon, who was starting to publicly criticize LBJ for not doing enough to achieve victory.

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