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For as long as most people can remember, scientists were the only ones who ever used the word deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. No more. In the late 1990s, references to the double helix are popping up everywhere, from cryptic daily newspaper headlines like "Rappers Fate Hinges on DNA" to the popular television program "The X-Files," in which so-called human junk DNA offers the Metaphorically Speaking: DNA Spoken Here