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...there it was hard to catch the drift of conversations, in particular those in Cajun French. In some phrasing and pronunciation, Cajun French has about as much in common with the French language as a claw hammer has with poetry; their English too is similarly disconnected, off the bead. For example, the unemployed might put the situation this way: "I told him for a job, he ask me no." Then again, a real live French photographer along for the ride said he would not attempt to speak like them because "I would never massacrate their language." And an organizer...
Merrifield confined his simple process to a single laboratory container. Placing a microscopic polystyrene bead inside the receptacle to act as a solid, inert foundation, he began adding drops of amino acid units, which linked together in the proper order. He washed the growing chain in a purifying solution after adding each chemical, thus avoiding the possible need to remove any part for additional purification, as in past methods. When the protein was complete, acid was used to cleave it from the bead. Though Merrifield's first device, regulated by a metal cylinder studded with pegs, had a touch...
...weapon might be terminated altogether. The Army had planned to buy 618 of the guns by 1987 (estimated cost: $4.5 billion). Before a Senate subcommittee, Lieut. General Louis Wagner Jr. admitted that the gun's guidance system worked so poorly in tests that it could not get a bead on a whirring helicopter even when the chopper was standing still...
...hard to draw a bead on what such a removal-the last move, sequestering one's self with one's age group-does to a family, each family's emotional equation being so complex. The children all seem to oppose it at first, especially when the facility is new and looks gashed out and raw. They think of the meticulous garden left behind, and the house, the house! But over the years, as several lifetimes of gardening skills are applied to the grounds, the retirement community is brought to bursting with blooming things. The spare quarters, with...
Political cartoonists across the country are having trouble drawing a bead on Fritz Mondale. Some admit that they have not "found" their Mondale face yet. Can this be an indication of Mondale's difficulty in getting himself across? Some cartoonists will tell you that it is more an occupational hazard of their own craft...