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...cannot do this work without being at the point of tension," Epps says. "I have to do that for the College. I have to take the risk." Chain of Command The bureaucracy within the College's race relations hierarchy has been steadily developing for the past tow years. This fall, however, Dean of Students Archile C. Epps III has taken on most of the authority for race relations policy, reshaping the committees under his charge...
CHEMISTRY Co-winner Kary Mullis, 48, was at Cetus Corp., a California biotech firm, when he developed a technique called PCR (polymerase chain reaction) in the 1970s. PCR enables chemists to take a bit of DNA from a cell and make limitless copies of the molecule. PCR-amplified DNA has been used to provide material for gene-therapy experiments, to convict rapists and, yes, even to make copies of DNA fragments from ancient fossils -- a concept taken to its logical conclusion in the movie Jurassic Park...
Steven Masone hasn't lived with ex-wife Susan Tanner for seven years, but he still can't get over one of her habits: chain smoking. It bothers him because it bothers their daughter Elysa, 8, who suffers from asthma. Masone, a minister in Stockton, California, worries that Tanner is aggravating Elysa's condition by lighting up around her. He even got a court order five years ago, barring Tanner from smoking in Elysa's presence. But Tanner's puffing -- and Masone's huffing -- continued. Finally, after Elysa had an asthma attack this month, a doctor said the child would...
...employees steal and sell medical supplies intended for the hospital. Bandits have been making off with an estimated third of the U.N.'s food aid as soon as it hits the ports. There is profiteering in the refugee camps by local chiefs appointed as middlemen in the food-distribution chain. "Given the hardships of everyday life here, they don't see anything wrong with what they are doing," says a relief official...
Mullis, 48, invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 1983, which allows scientists to mass produce millions of copies of short sequences of DNA within a couple of hours...