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Human genome mapped, ethical questions arise

By Nathan Dean
Editor in Chief

Imagine being able to tell at age 21 if you have a good chance of receiving prostate cancer at age 50.

In 10 years, you might be able to.

Scientists in the United States and Great Britain announced Monday that a preliminary coding of the human genome had taken place. In an effort that took 10 years and billions of dollars, almost all of the estimated 3.1 billion units of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) have been mapped out and put into codes.

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Heavy rain causes water level to rise, Wabash floods fields

Excess water is killing local crops.

Heavy rainfalls over the past several weeks have caused the Wabash River and local creeks to flood low-lying fields and cover young crops in water.

The flood level for the Wabash River is 11 feet; this week the river has risen to over 16 feet.

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Kids use video conferencing to design futuristic cars

Matt Holsapple / Summer Reporter

A television screen displays eight designers from General Motors that were assisting with the Summer Engineering Workshop. The workshop is designed to provide minority students, who are under-represented in engineering, early exposure to the engineering field.

On Tuesday, a group of eighth graders designed cars with General Motors.

The participants of the Summer Engineering Workshop used video conferencing to work with designers from GM. The designers will use the design ideas from the workshop participants to produce actual renderings of the participants car designs.

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Laura Pelner/Summer Reporter

Wenceslao Meza hands a hot dog to a customer and collects money Tuesday afternoon by the Engineering Fountain. Meza sells hot dogs daily around campus and usually gets between 40 and 70 customers.