New York Daily News: A New Yorker who captured the Nobel Prize for his genetics research will become one of President-elect Barack Obama’s top science advisers. Obama has tapped Dr. Harold Varmus, a Long Island native and head of the city’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, as part of a new science and technology team that will tackle climate change, energy independence and health. Taking a page straight out of Al Gore’s global warming playbook, Obama said Saturday that advancing American …