Solving a knotty problem

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Fishing trips can be spoiled when amateur fishermen do not know the proper way of tying knots. Fishermen can learn how to tie knots by practicing with fishing lines or ropes made of heavy material. The best knots to use when fishing include the blood knot, palomar knot, surgeon's loop and lark's head knot.

Author: McNally, Bob
Publisher: Boy Scouts of America, Inc.
Publication Name: Boys' Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0006-8608
Year: 1995
Methods, Training, Fishing, Fishing (Recreation), Fishing knots

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Creating Jobs: he's returning to his old family at Apple while keeping together his new family at Pixar

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The personal family events, and the events in Jobs' corporate families, have helped to shape his personality so that he is now calmer, yet with a degree of fatalism. His relationship with Simpson, his sister, and with his children, as well as the businesses, Apple, NeXT and Pixar, are discussed.

Author: Lohr, Steve
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
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ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1997
Publishing industry, Management, Computer software industry, Computer industry, Software industry, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Microsoft Corp., Column, Behavior, Biography, AAPL, Market share, MSFT, Works, Pixar Animation Studios, PIXR, Apple Inc., NeXT Computer Inc., Jobs, Steven, Simpson, Mona, A Regular Guy (Book)

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Exon Shuffling in Retrospect

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The role retrotransposons play in the shaping of eukaryotic genomes are explained. The process by which these short sequences of DNA replicates itself are noted, along with the benefits of transposable elements to genomes and its ability to shuffles exons.

Author: Eickbush, Tom
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1999
Research, DNA sequencers, Exon (Molecular genetics), Exons (Molecular genetics)

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