Which statement best summarizes the central idea of the text? The Human Genome Project will eventually eliminate human disease and human variation in skin color.

Not nearly completed, the Human Genome Project is a complicated, worthwhile investigation into human genes.

A great mystery to most, the Human Genome Project is a costly, time–consuming project that has produced uncertain results.

The Human Genome Project is creating controversy in the science world because it is proving so many previously held scientific beliefs to be incorrect.

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in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".

the correct answer should be choice c. live coverage.

print journalists gain credibility from neutrality, while tv news reports gain it from live on the spot reporting.

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jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.