Golden Gate Bridge Director Kary Witt says the presence of the National Guard should make people feel safer.

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In 1993, Kary Mullis won a Nobel Prize for discovering PCR, and several widespread efforts, including the Human Genome Project, have used the science to compile their databases.

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But it is impossible to imagine its wacky inventor, Kary Mullis, who accepted the Nobel prize dressed in a surfer's drysuit, flourishing in the stuffy constraints of Roche's Basle headquarters.

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