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This article analyzes the book "The Da Vinci Code," by Dan Brown and discusses its historical accuracy. The 24 breathless hours covered in The Da Vinci Code take place against an enormous backdrop of 2,000 years of alternative Western history. She becomes the true Holy Grail, as a proper understanding of the words will show: the Old French Sangreal should not be separated after the "n" (San Greal or Holy Grail), but after the "g" (sang real or blood royal). It's not much of a leg to stand on, but no one can prove Jesus and Mary Magdalene weren't married, and the supposition that early female disciples were prominent among Christ's followers is reasonable. Wanting a divinity-based religion like the paganism he knew, Constantine calls the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE and commissions a new Bible, throwing out any of the 80 or so gospels extant that tell the whole truth about Jesus (only Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are left). The Church launches it, in part at least, to find and destroy records in the Holy Land pertaining to Jesus's family and his true mission.

Illumina's multibillion-dollar deal for cancer blood test developer Grail was already under an antitrust microscope in the U.S. and Europe. Now, the watchdogs in the States have raised a new threat—as the deal's closing deadline moves inexorably closer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]