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Meselson studied questions of how DNA chains replicate and found that the chains come apart and each makes a new partner. His studies with Frank Stahl on replication led to the Meselson-Stahl model of DNA recombination, now a fixture in genetics textbooks...
...MORE WE LEARN ABOUT THE COSmos, the more we realize how trivial we are in this amazingly vast and complex system. In such a universe, which is far beyond human imagination, we are obsessed with our immature and selfish thoughts, destroying and tearing one another apart under various banners. We are nothing but a joke in this universe. ALI PIRAHANCHI Johannesburg, South Africa Via E-mail...
...Chirac: Apart from certain superficial crises, relations have always been excellent, and will remain so because it is in the nature of things. You can't change two centuries of history. [But] I will not hide the fact that I am very worried about the isolationism of the current American Congress. Concerning aid to developing countries, for example, the European Union, with a gdp roughly equivalent to America's, spends some $31 billion a year and the U.S. $9 billion. I think that the one who pays is the one who has the political power in the final analysis...
...children are probably better off raised by both parents. But this is not true if the two parents are unhappily married. When I was eight, I tried hard to prevent my parents from getting divorced, wanting to live in a stable home with both my parents. But they grew apart, and would have been miserable living together no matter how hard they tried. I think it was much healthier for me to grow up exposed to my parents living in separate loving relationships than to remain with both parents in a home environment saturated with resentment...
Breaking Through the Algae To human eyes, the world on the eve of the Cambrian explosion would have seemed an exceedingly hostile place. Tectonic forces unleashed huge earthquakes that broke continental land masses apart, then slammed them back together. Mountains the size of the Himalayas shot skyward, hurling avalanches of rock, sand and mud down their flanks. The climate was in turmoil. Great ice ages came and went as the chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans endured some of the most spectacular shifts in the planet's history. And in one way or another, says Knoll, these dramatic upheavals helped...