E-MAIL ME THE ROSETTA STONE.(MAIN)

Byline: ANDY ROONEY

If I'm in a hurry reading the newspaper, I don't pause for long over something I don't understand. I figure it isn't important enough to spend any time worrying about it.

The other day, though, I read a story that was very important. I wouldn't have known it was so important except that two scientists were quoted as saying the discovery was ``a monumental technical feat.''

Another scientist said, ``It may be the Rosetta Stone for deciphering the human genome.''

The story said that they had decoded the complete genetic diagram for making the Drosophila fruit fly. It was important, they said, not because of the fruit fly …