Word: acids
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SHOPPING NETWORK. There are clear indications that Saddam has reopened his high-tech procurement network. In June 1993 the Egyptian navy intercepted a freighter carrying hydrochloric acid from India outside the Gulf of Aqaba. Experts said Iraq could use the chemical for uranium enrichment...
...such a small mistake -- the equivalent of changing the spelling of Smith to Smyth -- have such an impact? Each three-letter "word" of a gene "sentence" spells out the instructions for producing 1 of 20 amino acids, compounds that in turn link to form proteins. A change in just one letter can result in the substitution of one amino acid for another. The new amino acid will be larger, smaller, stiffer or more elastic than the correct one. In ways radical and subtle, it will affect the shape of the protein and its activity. For if a cell is like...
...since they could say "Atari" may not be as easy to convince. "Young people want something that's packaged in a way that they can understand and is compelling, but when they rip open the package they want something real," says Rob Nelson, 29, the T-shirt and acid-washed jeans poster boy of Lead or Leave, another upstart youth group...
DIED. EVELYN NIGHTINGALE, 90, first wife of acid-penned novelist Evelyn Waugh; in London. Within a year of their 1928 marriage, "She-Evelyn" revealed to + "He-Evelyn" her affair with the man who became her next husband. Waugh's revenge became a part of literary history: the adulterous Lady Brenda Last in A Handful of Dust was modeled after his unfaithful wife, as were two other characters in later works...
...path that brought him to us took Handy, 35, through two famous training grounds for American satirists of his generation. In 1987 he began writing for Spy magazine, the acid monthly known for "its witty, savagely elegant deconstructions of the hype, venality and sheer short-fingered vulgarity that marked the past decade." (That quote comes from the Milestones item that Handy wrote last month about Spy's folding after seven years of nipping at the heels of power.) From there he went on to write Weekend Update for Saturday Night Live. That, says Handy, gave him good practice...