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...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 at the skill...
...Congress passed the Jury Selection and Service Act, which required that federal courts cull jurors from the list of registered voters, but the states took their time in following suit. Although the Supreme Court has outlawed "systematic exclusion" of women and racial minorities from prospective jury lists, the court has consistently refused to set any specific quotas for these or any other groups on the juries actually selected...
...accessible collection of reviews--for both the neophyte and the connoisseur. However, the salient aspect of her work lies in its expression. Vendler has not only developed an almost singular rapport with many of these poets, attending to diverse structure and form, but she has learned how to cull her provocative thoughts from what Keats would call a "teeming brain...
...Pusey administration's ability to cull Harvard alumni dollars shows the success of Reynold's formula. Pusey's fundraisers racked up an additional $125 million through the remainder of his term, making a grand total of $207 million. Money from the drives went for the creation of Medical and Law School development offices, the program for Harvard Science (which eventually built the science center), the Pusey Library, and the International Studies building...
...neighborhoods resembling it in a lot of people's home towns. Broadway in New York is flanked by a similar utilitarian snarl of dingy department stores and stark donut or submarine joints. From my own experience in Midwestern cities of about 200,000 inhabitants or less, I can cull couples and triples of Central Square cafes with blacked out windows and steel doors bearing discreet Budweiser placards, or upper stories rented by optometrists, orthodontists and somebody named Arthur Savage, Tax Acct. Not even the neon camel propped above A Nubian Notion is unique; it glows in Roxbury...