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Last-minute shoppers flock to Titles

Behind on your Christmas shopping? Still looking for that perfect gift? Not enough time to wander the malls? Titles Bookstore, located in the basement of Gilmour Hall, is a popular place for last-minute McMaster shoppers. "We're going to be busy right up to Christmas," says Barry Petrie, interim director of the bookstore. And it's no wonder, considering its convenient location at the heart of the McMaster campus and wide selection of merchandise. "We still have plenty of items in stock," says Petrie. "Shoppers can still find everything they'll need to finish their Christmas shopping."

Woolly mammoth genome comes to life

A McMaster University geneticist, in collaboration with genome researchers from Penn State University and the American Museum of Natural History has made history by mapping a portion of the woolly mammoth's genome. The discovery, which has astounded the scientific world, surpasses a study released today by Nature that also concerns the woolly mammoth. Hendrik Poinar, a molecular evolutionary geneticist in the department of anthropology and pathology at McMaster University, says his study involves the vital nuclear DNA within a mammoth rather than the lesser mitochondria, on which the Nature study is based.