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...Senate's Banking and Judiciary committees. "I'd like to be accorded the chance to do my job," she declared, "and be taken seriously as a legislator." One way she could do that is to take more care to avoid the kind of behavior usually associated with the old breed of politician...
Fruit flies are the mules, if you will, of genetic research; they breed fast, and their simple chromosomes are ideal for the study of heredity. Now a group of U.S. biologists has found a way to freeze living fly embryos. Not only does that guarantee a stable fly supply, but it is a landmark achievement in another sense: fruit flies are the most complex organisms ever to be lab frozen and revived. The technique could lead, albeit far down the road, to the freezing of mammals -- even humans, maybe...
...neighbor has two pigs and he has only one, he would rather see his neighbor's extra pig slaughtered than raise a second one of his own. Such crude but firmly ingrained egalitarian ideas predate communism. They help explain why the average Russian is so suspicious of the new breed of street entrepreneur who hawks everything from bathtub fixtures to brassieres on city sidewalks. He welcomes the sudden abundance, but he thinks it is extremely unfair that someone should make a living by buying scarce goods and reselling them at prices most people cannot afford...
...cracked, crumbling and in peril of a disastrous collapse. The melted-down fuel is turning to unstable dust. Contaminated objects are being smuggled out of the poorly guarded 1,092-sq.-mi. exclusion zone. Birds fly into the sarcophagus through holes as big as a garage door; rats breed in the ruin. The structure is so unsteady that a strong windstorm could smash it, sending a plume of radioactive dust into the atmosphere. "Nothing is being done to clean it up," says Alex Sich, an American engineer who has studied the Chernobyl site...
Despite their differences, Doug Owen and Jo Baker are part of an increasingly rare breed themselves, the American family farmer...