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Most enlightened university officials would like to grant students almost total power in making rules about housing and social activities. Students justifiably argue that they should not have to live under more restrictive conditions than their noncollege peers who have jobs. Yet countless wrangles over dormitory visitation rights and check-in hours persist because universities fear that parents want their offspring sheltered-a practical impossibility. Actually, many campuses that have let students create such rules have found them almost as stern about conduct as those imposed by the administration...
Supermale? Nature intended every man and woman to have 46 chromo somes per cell: 22 pairs of autosomes, which determine countless characteristics other than sex, and two gonosomes or sex chromosomes. In the female, these are a pair of Xs; in the male, an X and a Y (see diagram). When a sperm fertilizes an ovum, each supplies half the 46 chromosomes for the combination of cells that will grow into a baby. If the sperm contains an X chromosome, the baby gets that X plus one from the mother, and will be an XX girl. If the sperm contains...
Imitations & Echoes. The technique worked so well that he was elected class president and editor of the school paper, the Chatterbox, to which he contributed countless drawings and a flood of articles and light verse, not the least of which was a poem called "Child's Question": "O, is it true/ A word with Q/ The usual U/ Does lack?/ I grunt and strain, /But, no, in vain, /My weary brain/ Iraq." He also earned straight A's. His mother, leafing through an anthology of prizewinning short stories calculated that more prizewinning authors had gone to Harvard than...
...upstate New York (1941's Saratoga Trunk), Texas (1952's Giant) and Alaska (1958's Ice Palace). Critics sometimes called her shallow; her subjects often found her biting judgments just the reverse (in Texas, in fact, there were mutters of lynching). Her books, Broadway plays and countless short stories, brought her fame and wealth. "Life," she said, "can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death...
Kahn has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since three days after he graduated from Harvard College in 1937. He has written 13 books--none of which has sold particularly well--and countless articles for the New Yorker and several other well known magazines. Since October, Kahn has been in Cambridge, extensively researching a book about Harvard which will probably appear first as a series of articles in the New Yorker early...