The details remain hazy, but it casts a "Chinatown"-size cloud over Ray and probably accounts for the state of his marriage -- which is over -- and the fact that he's sleeping on his dad's leaky sailboat.

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It's as if the sailboat of Barbar's dreams suddenly materialised in front of us.

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So far, the example that has gotten the most attention is Craig Venter's effort to sequence ocean microbes from the deck of his 100-foot sailboat.

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