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...year's varsity. To compensate for the lost manpower, coach Bob Scalise worked the booters into shape with tortuous triple sessions in early September, an experience most of the booters would like to forget. But to fill the holes from last year's lineup. Scalise looked to a bumper crop of freshmen, unquestionably the big surprise of the season...
...painstaking record keeping and careful analysis, McClintock discerned a method in nature's seeming madness. The pigment genes, those causing the splotch es of color on the kernels, were somehow being switched off or on in a particular generation. Still more remarkable, the same "switches" often seemed to crop up a generation later at different places along the same chromosome or even on a totally different chromosome. Indeed, these mysterious "controlling elements," as McClintock called them, seemed to be available almost any place in the genetic machinery where they might be needed to turn genes on or off. Such...
...those a bit more elevated was a young Cleveland widow by the name of Julia Tuttle, who moved to Miami in the 1870s. The city then was a makeshift village of shacks and sand trails hacked out of palmetto groves. When a freeze destroyed the citrus crop of central Florida in 1894, Tuttle picked a bouquet of orange blossoms untouched by the frost and sent it to Financier Henry Flagler as proof that South Florida was worth a look. Flagler, who was already building up St. Augustine, came, saw and was conquered; he built a railway to Miami and beyond...
...sophisticates in international finance. For one deal, says Steinberg, they siphoned money through a yacht broker in Miami to a bank in the Caymans, thence to Hong Kong, and ultimately to Thailand. Later Steinberg dispatched cash and trusted aides to start a multimillion-dollar agricultural operation in Kenya. The crop: marijuana...
Peking claims that the new system has helped increase the production of China's farms, particularly those that raise the key crop of cotton. Ironically, the new system has also created a new problem simply because it is more efficient. Workers who are no longer needed on the farms have added to the country's already grave unemployment rate, which is estimated...