Fisher told me that her current boyfriend has read the complete works of Shakespeare aloud to her in bed, as well as some Dickens and Ibsen.

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According to Anthony Kerlavage of Celera, a company formed last year with the intention of sequencing the entire human genome using private money (and beating government-financed projects in the process), a genetics laboratory can easily produce 100 gigabytes of data a day that is about 20, 000 times the volume of data in the complete works of Shakespeare or J.

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