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...Reagan dined happily with his family on turkey, corn-bread dressing and mince pie at his Santa Barbara ranch, the frayed tempers and bruised feelings of congressional leaders also began to mend. On reflection, the great budget battle was probably as unnecessary as it was unseemly. The confrontation had centered on a matter of roughly $2 billion, a totally symbolic figure since it represented a mere .28% of the $700 billion budget for fiscal 1982, which is running $80 billion in the red. Not only will the $2 billion have to be fought over once again between...
...past three or four years. Cats are also becoming a factor in the American economy. Owners will shell out $1.4 billion for 1 million tons of cat food that carry such whisker-licking names as Meow Mix and Tender Vittles. These processed delights consist largely of soybean, corn and wheat. One hundred eighty-nine million dollars' worth of cat-box filler will inevitably follow. Revenues to veterinarians, animal psychologists, pet shops and grooming parlors will add even more millions. All of this must be added to the initial cost of buying the beast...
Honors to the Corn Lady...
...years. Unlike most scientists at the famed biology laboratory in the small Long Island, N.Y., town of Cold Spring Harbor, she does not splice, cut or reshuffle the genes of viruses and bacteria. Rather, for the past four decades, Geneticist Barbara McClintock has been carefully breeding and crossbreeding corn, trying to cull from it some kernels of truth about the secrets of genetic diversity, just as the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel did in his famous pea patch more than a century ago. McClintock's colleagues, caught up in the latest wizardry of genetic engineering, have long marveled...
...majoring in biology at Cornell, and adding a botany Ph.D., she began methodically cultivating maize on a little plot near an inlet of Long Island Sound. McClintock, funded by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, kept careful watch over the kaleidoscopic changes of color in the leaves and kernels of corn from one generation to the next. The changes were produced by underlying modifications in genetic structure. At the time, though, no one understood how DNA was put together or how it worked. Indeed, only a few researchers were convinced it really was the molecule that carried heredity's message...