the third plant, after rice and a weed called Arabidopsis thaliana, to have its genome sequence published. Comparing their respective genomes is expected to shed light on their separate evolutionary paths, researchers said.

The team isolated the sequenced DNA from a poplar tree growing along the Nisqually River in Washington state.

More than three dozen researchers from the U.S., Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany and Sweden were led by Gerald Tuskan of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.jury could find beyond a
reasonable doubt that Parks sold and distributed crack cocaine on four occasions as
charged in the indictment. The informant testified at trial, and his testimony was
corroborated by the testimony of the officers who monitored the transactions and by
audio and video tape evidence. Further, the police took proper precautionary
measures with the informant. The police searched the informant and his vehicle
before his meetings with Parks, kept the informant under surveillance during each
meeting, monitored what the informant and Parks said during their transactions, and
took the crack cocaine into their possession immediately afterwards.

       Parks also asserts the district court should have granted a downward departure
from the applicable sentencing guidelines range because the Government’s initiation
of the drug deals and decision to set up four