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Finding the suspect gene took 18 months of painstaking analysis. It was, Page says, "like seeing a brick wall and piecing it together brick by brick." After pinpointing the TDF gene, Page used computer analysis to hypothesize how it works. The suspicion is that TDF triggers the production of a protein that signals other genes to induce maleness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: It's A Boy, and Here's Why | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

HARVARD. The very name evokes images of brick buildings, libraries stuffed to the brim with books and four years of study in wood-panneled rooms with the smell of pipe tobacco wafting from all the professorial types gathered around campus...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: What Do I Know? | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

With success came creature comforts. Sondheim splurged in 1960 and bought a Manhattan town house after the movie sale of Gypsy. He still lives there, in an East Side enclave of houses that share a sprawling back garden with low brick walls, small fountains and mossy enclosures. Katharine Hepburn resides next door, but they did not meet until nearly a decade after he moved in. "I was up one night at about 3, pounding on the piano, writing The Ladies Who Lunch for Company, when I heard this banging on the garden door. There she was, in a babushka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephen Sondheim: Master of the Musical | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...buildings from several centuries strung along narrow, zigzagging streets. This jam-packed patchwork is, in extremely concentrated form, the natural look of cities, of anything created over time by many hands. Certain tacit rules apparently governed the 250-year accretion of buildings in Blackstone Block -- rules about material (red brick) and height (seven stories maximum) -- but within those constraints houses and workshops were demolished and built as circumstances demanded over the years, not according to any inflexible, grandiose scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Spiffing Up The Urban Heritage | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...city's gentrified warehouse district. But he does not want to play along with the preservationists. He says he will not put his headquarters next to "some big, ugly red buildings" just because they are historic. Harper is demanding that the warehouses be demolished. "Some people love old red brick buildings," Harper says. "Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Spiffing Up The Urban Heritage | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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