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Think: you too could "run thymidine kinase assay on enzyme preparation from selected cell samples;" you too could be a fire watcher, a book salesman, a horticultural trainee, a budget analyst, or a summer civil servant...
...still want to assay the bulk of Letters--out of a sentimental attachment to Barth's brilliant earlier epic-length efforts, Giles Goat-Boy and The Sot-Weed Factor, or out of sheer quixotic nerve--you could take the advice of Jacob Horner, formerly the protagonist of The End of the Road and now a pawn wandering Barth's checkerboard...
more than $1 million worth of gold had disappeared from the U.S. Assay Office, a fortress-like building in lower Manhattan where some 2 million oz. of gold are refined every year. Treasury officials figured that the gold rush took place some time between 1973 and 1977 but could not be more specific because of "significant irregularities" in the office's accounting procedures...
...father's testes. In any case, the test has already been put to important clinical use. At New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, for example, a two-year-old child with an enlarged clitoris but a seemingly normal XX chromosome pattern was tested for H-Y antigen. The assay turned out positive, and subsequent surgery revealed the reason: she was a hermaphrodite, with dual sexual organs-an ovary on one side and a combination of ovary and testis on the other. The doctors promptly removed the ovotestis, thereby reducing the danger of cancer and ensuring that she would...
...honored, impartial scientists. It is therefore essential for realistic evaluation of such views that readers know of the commercial connections of Dr. David Baltimore and Dr. Salvador Luria: both are listed as consultants in the brochure of Collaborative research, of Waltham, a company that manufactures products employed in the assay of restriction enzymes used in recombinant DNA research. Francine Robinson Simring, Chairman Committee for Genetics