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...chemical "steps" along much larger DNA molecules, this bacterial gene contains only 199 full steps, each a pair of letters in the genetic code. Consisting of chemicals called nucleotides, these letters make up words in the gene's message-in this case, instructions to transfer the amino acid tyrosine to the cell's protein-manufacturing centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Making of a Gene | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio. And on the important "social" issues which might appeal to that constituency--amnesty, abortion, busing, prayer in the schools, etc.--Schweiker's views are in perfect accordance with Reagan's. In such a campaign--which would bear an eerie resemblance to Nixon's 1972 "acid, amnesty and abortion" strategy--Schweiker could be a big help...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Pulp | 8/10/1976 | See Source »

Very.... strange. How did it happen, this most bizarre media event of the campaign? God, could it be the acid? Has it happened to Hunter, too, what happened to Rennie Davis and so many other twisted LSD casualties--The Dread Post-Acid Gurunoid Syndrome? Is Jimmy Carter his 14-year...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: A Snack Pack of Conspiracies and Scum | 8/3/1976 | See Source »

...basic rule surely ought to be: Measure what to believe by where you read it. You really can't demand reliability or balance about public affairs, only shock and cynicism and liveliness, in magazines whose editors are more skilled at judging acid-rock groups. Or in magazines whose editors primarily compete for the latest angle of audacity in photographing naked girls. Still, solemnity isn't the only test of good journalism: more conventional papers and magazines are often incurious about some kinds of news, while journals like Rolling Stone and the early Ramparts -in quite a different league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Fear and Loathing and Ripping Off | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Stafford Springs, Connecticut, was originally discovered by the Mohegan and Narraganset Indians, who said the waters made them feel lively. The springs contain iron held in solution by carbonic acid, native alkali, marine salt and sulfur. These chemicals, according to a local expert, give the spring waters "a strong ferruginous taste and when first drunk frequently occasion nausea, even to puking," but they are "best for skin afflictions and ulcers of all kinds, dropsies in the first stages, debility, weakness of eyes and several kinds of fits." The springs can be reached by a stagecoach that leaves from The Sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Where to Take the Waters | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

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