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...Without a wink or a chuckle, Odenwald claims that these male fruit flies are gay -- and that he and Zhang made them that way. The scientists say they transplanted a single gene into the flies that caused them to display homosexual behavior. And that's very interesting, they assert, because a related gene exists in human beings, although there is no evidence yet that the human gene has an effect on sexual preference...
Many students who oppose randomization say they like being able to live with people who have interests similar to theirs. Others say they want to have freedom of choice. Still others assert that just because students of different backgrounds or races live next to each other does not mean they will become friends...
...general, I had a feeling that this year would be different from past years in terms of how the council is viewed, at least by my own class, because there was pressure to break from the `scandals' of the past, and as a freshman to assert that we had no part in contributing to some supposed image problem," he added...
...about developing a sense of identity," says Kenneth R. Manning '70. "Some of us [Black protesters] came from middle class backgrounds, some from poor Black neighborhoods, but we shared a need to assert ourselves in a positive way. We took our cultural and political contributions as Blacks very seriously...
...nation's largest independent DNA forensic laboratory, gave jurors whatTIME Los Angeles correspondent James Willwerthcalls "a very user-friendly lesson on what DNA is and how DNA testing is done." Their purpose, says Willwerth, is "to demonstrate the DNA testing is science rather than voodoo," as the defense will assert...