Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WELFARE MOTHER is a footnote to New York City life. It presents a tiny bit of information, intentionally limited in scope, on what ought to be at least one very long chapter in the book of New York: welfare and the Department of Social Services. Susan Sheehan, a writer on the staff of the New Yorker, where this work first appeared in a slightly different form, has written a profile of a Puerto Rican welfare mother, describing for 95 pages the daily comings and goings of Carmen Santana and her family...
...Band members became owners of houses in Malibu, and the fun of touring eventually faded. After a desultory summer of canceled concerts and mixed reviews, they decided, in Robertson's words, "to bring it to a head. We're going to conclude this chapter of our lives." So, with dinner out of the way, the group took the stage at Winterland last week for one final, marathon 37-song set. On hand for the grand farewell: old friends like Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and finally Dylan himself. Their last number, Dylan...
...week belatedly revealed the death of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko at age 78 in a brief back-page announcement, his bitter legacy was still all too apparent. Only now are the biological sciences in the U.S.S.R. finally recovering from what the American geneticist I. Michael Lerner calls "the most bizarre chapter in the history of modern science...
...That chapter began in the bloody 1930s when Lysenko, a young plant breeder from the Ukraine, burst onto the Soviet scientific scene with a beguiling claim: that the inheritance of physical characteristics could be manipulated in plants by their environment. It was an idea totally at odds with modern genetics, which holds that an organism's basic color or shape, say, is passed from one generation to the next by the genes with inflexible regularity (except when they are mutated). But the theory was highly compelling to Stalin; he had become increasingly annoyed at the failure of conventional agricultural...
...confessions lasted for 3½ hours as a Gamblers Anonymous chapter held its weekly meeting in a church basement in New York City. G.A., which now has 450 chapters across the U.S. and others in Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, was founded in 1957 when two addicted gamblers met by chance on a Los Angeles street. One of the gamblers was rushing to a card game, the other to a race track, and they started telling each other their problems. There are now 5,000 members of G.A. in the U.S., but they represent only a tiny percentage...