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...chief cash crop of the area outside the twin cities of Bloomington and Normal, Ill. (combined pop. 83,384), is about to change from corn to cars. Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and Mitsubishi President Toyoo Tate announced last week that they had picked a 636-acre site just west of the central Illinois cities as the location for Diamond-Star Motors, a new joint venture. So named because Mitsubishi's corporate symbol consists of three diamonds and Chrysler's is a star, Diamond-Star plans to build 180,000 subcompact cars annually, beginning in 1988. Each company is investing about...
...while studying the membrane of Paramecium that Biologist John Preer Jr. and his colleagues at Indiana University in Bloomington stumbled onto the aberrant code. In the midst of the long sequences of Paramecium codons, they kept finding words that in most creatures read "stop." Yet in Paramecium, the word added another amino acid. Says Preer: "We thought it must be an error in our technique." However, news soon filtered over from the Centre de Genetique Moleculaire laboratory near Paris that scientists there were encountering the same anomaly. As the two groups report in a recent issue of the British journal...
Norman Dale Carrico Bloomington...
...field, the Bloomington, Ind native has a distinctively mild-mannered approach to life. "He's like a country boy, very easy-going, a very friendly person," says left guard Ben Thio. "He smiles a lot and just does...
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