Word: carolina
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Other scientists call Mullis a genius, but he offers a more modest explanation for his endless creativity: a fervent desire to avoid drudgery and have more time to play. As a boy in South Carolina, he transformed parts from the family washing machine into an automatic door opener so that he could let the dog out each morning without leaving his bed. As an adult, he invented a system to dim lights simply by thinking erotic thoughts. Even PCR was an attempt to devise a less laborious way of copying DNA than the method used by living cells. "When...
...Barnum Houses, 21 squat buildings marooned on the western edge of the city, are not an easy place to raise children, especially boys. The eldest son Gerrod, 20, fell first -- dropping out of school, smoking marijuana, then using cocaine -- and is serving a five-year sentence in North Carolina for breaking and entering. "I was out in the streets, hanging with the wrong crowd," he says. The third brother Jeremy began selling drugs. "Jeremy wanted things," says his mother. "It's that fast money. They want Michael Jordan sneakers and all that stuff they see." Jeremy was shot to death...
Ever since the time of Romeo and Juliet, teenage love has inspired poems, novels, movies and songs. It also inspired University of North Carolina researchers to design a five-year, $18 million survey of 24,000 youngsters in grades 7 through 11 to determine teen attitudes toward sex in the '90s. The study, ranging from the tame (hand holding) to the torrid (sodomy and oral sex), won funding from the National Institutes of Health in May. But last week Secretary of Health Louis Sullivan abruptly canceled the study because he feared it would contradict his stand against casual...
...biggest impact of the merger could come from the pressure it exerts ( on other large banks. Just one day after the New York behemoths unveiled their agreement, C&S/Sovran, a regional firm based in Atlanta and Norfolk, Va., said it would press ahead in merger talks with North Carolina's NCNB to create the third largest U.S. banking company. In California experts said merger candidates include San Francisco's Wells Fargo and the ailing First Interstate and Security Pacific banks in Los Angeles. Any pairing among those would create a formidable new West Coast giant...
Soon after that policy was announced, the U.S. Senate moved aggressively beyond the CDC and passed two measures to make the agency's recommendations, including disclosure, mandatory. Under one proposal, sponsored by Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, physicians could receive prison terms of 10 years and fines of up to $10,000 if they refused to reveal their HIV infection before an operation -- whether or not they passed on the virus to their patients. The second bill, backed by Senators Robert Dole of Kansas and Orrin Hatch of Utah, threatens any state that does not implement the CDC guidelines...