Wolcott came to New York, in the fall of 1972, because Norman Mailer liked an article he had published in his college paper the article, not coincidentally, was about Norman Mailer and had written a letter of introduction to Daniel Wolf, who then edited the Village Voice.

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That is the goal at a shop a few miles down the road from U.S. Genomics, at Harvard, where biophysicist Daniel Branton and colleagues hope to design a better detector by passing DNA, one letter at a time, through a microscopic "nanopore" in a silicon membrane.

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