Word: baxters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will serve as important stepping-stones to the isolation of genes. But RFLPs can only approximate the gene's position; biologists must progressively snip away the intervening fragments before they can fish out the gene and begin manipulating it. At least one marker, however, may be immediately useful. John Baxter of California Biotechnology, the firm where the heart-disease markers were found, believes the RFLP could help in alerting people to their tendency in time to change their behavior. Warns Baxter: "If you have this marker, it's equivalent to having blood pressure...
...Young fathers can be so busy--so dumb," writes Newspaperman and National % Public Radio Personality Gordon Baxter. He should know; he was one. But that was long ago, and in this peppery account of his relationship with new Daughter Jenny, born when Baxter was 54 and already a grandfather by his "first litter," the Texan turns the tables. Although a reluctant father- to-be ("Lamaze, LaLeche . . . LeHusband"), the good ole boy becomes a good, if old, dad. Baxter stays home to write in a woodsy cabin with his second wife Diane, nearly 20 years his junior, and he and Jenny...
...offer, for a quarter or a dime, a sort of divine otherness, a momentary alternative to the quotidian. This escape took many forms, but a particularly swellegant one could be found in the week's attraction at the Jewel, The Purple Rose of Cairo. In it, Tom Baxter (of the Chicago Baxters), "adventurer and explorer," is discovered by a group of rich idlers in an Egyptian tomb and whisked home with them for "a madcap Manhattan weekend," all supper clubs and penthouses, cocktail shakers and white telephones. Movies like Purple Rose, delicately parodied here, proposed not just the possibility...
...neglecting or abusing Cecilia. Her life is like a movie, all right, but the wrong kind, the first reel of an old Joan Crawford weeper. But in Cecilia's movie-house refuge, a couple of synapses in her mind clap hands, and her sweet, silly dreams take life. Tom Baxter suddenly starts talking to her from the screen, then hops down off it to escort her out the back door into reality...
...proposals we dealt with covered a wide range of corporate activity, from a call on Emerson Electric to adopt ethical criteria for accepting military contracts: to a demand that Merck & Co. cease making contributrions to charitable organizations and non-profit institutions: to an appeal to Standard Oil of California. Baxter Travenol, Texaco, and Xerox to abide by minimal standard of ethical conduct in their South African operations or withdraw from that country...