Word: core
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Chemical Mutation. Tsugita and Fra«n-kel-Conrat worked with TMU, a virus that causes mosaic disease in tobacco plants. TMU's structure is extremely simple. All it has is a core of coiled-up RNA surrounded by a cylindrical jacket made of protein molecules. Tsugita and Fraenkel-Conrat first stripped off the jacket by use of a protein-dissolving chemical. Then they treated the naked RNA with nitrous acid, which is known to affect the RNA's code-carrying bases. After the nitrous acid had. acted, the RNA was enabled to clothe itself...
Author Lacy sees little reason to believe that there has been much relative growth in "hard-core," out-and-out pornography (sold under the counter), and is skeptical of some of the statistics bandied about semipornographic publications (sold openly). If the often-mentioned $1 billion figure were accurate, says Lacy, "every family in America would be spending on the average about $20 a year on pornography." Psychiatrists, sociologists and experts on juvenile delinquency disagree, too, on the effects of pornography on the young-"a very few even see possible indirect benefits from obscene materials that can divert into fantasy certain...
Still, the core of the list is the heart of the West's wisdom and genius. And the information in Fadiman's bibliography and introduction is helpful. Unfortunately, the sheer pomposity of any such program of cultural pushups is enough to send many readers scuttling to the pages of Agatha Christie. Perhaps Fadiman should have totted up an auxiliary list of 100 works that are MERELY GOOD (Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Pope's Essay on Man-) and another of volumes FRIVOLOUS BUT CHARMING (Petronius' Satyricon, Cummings' Collected Poems...
...Core Course. In New Hyde Park, N.Y., when Kindergarten Teacher Florence Ann Mostler, 24, got married, 30 of her pupils showed up at the church, each carrying a shiny red apple...
...zeal of Southern Negro students rubbed off on white collegians thousands of miles away. Sympathy pickets appeared last week before Woolworth's stores in Boulder, Colo., Madison, Wis., and Boston, lent weight to a drive organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to exert economic pressure against five-and-dime chains. Variety stores in North and South were feeling the pinch of Negro economic pressure-a new weapon long deemed too risky-but so far the Negroes had not yet won so much as an integrated cup of coffee below the Potomac...