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Science 1 December 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5497, p. 1679
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5497.1679d
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We march for breast cancer, we run for AIDS; now we can paddle for Rett syndrome. Clark Eid, whose daughter Amanda suffers from this devastating inherited neurological disorder, has organized what he claims is the world's longest kayak race--down the entire Mississippi River--to raise $1 million for research.

Eid, a medicinal chemist at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Stamford, Connecticut, has built a racing kayak with a double helix overlaid in wood winding around it. DNA bases are represented by 120 roses arranged into 20 codons that, when translated into their amino acids, spell out "Amanda's dreamkeeper." The 23-day race will start next May in Minnesota's Lake Itasca, ending 3600 kilometers later in the Gulf of Mexico. So far 14 U.S. and Canadian teams have signed up for the race with $2500 pledges to the Rett Syndrome Research Foundation (see www.dreamkeeper.org).

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