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...immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material." But they were less restrained when persuading Watson's sister to type up the paper for them. "We told her," Watson wrote in The Double Helix, "that she was participating in perhaps the most famous event in biology since Darwin's book...
...Darwin talked of the basis from which life evolved, not of the end product," Haggerty said. "One has high hopes and goals. We want to win the league championship. But people will be more successful if they concentrate on the process at hand rather than the long-term consequences...
...DARWIN'S ANGELS? Playboy filmmaker and soft-porn entrepreneur Ron Harris' website got more than 5 million hits its first day of business. His commodity? Eggs harvested from models for in-vitro fertilization. The auction could be a fraud, but if people want models, they should get the best. We asked fertility clinics what characteristics clients look for in donors and rated models to see whose eggs would be best...
...Darwin, we're not in Kansas anymore. Recently, the Kansas Board of Education--which last summer removed evolution from standardized public school tests--voted to remove the Big Bang theory from state-wide teaching standards so that the "Young Universe" theory may be taught. In contrast to the prevalent Big Bang theory, which states that the universe was formed from a single atom over 4 billion years ago, the Young Universe theory explains how it is possible to use the Bible in order to show that the universe began only 10,000 years...
...rest of the world-that post-yuppie generation bit by their own species of the Y2Kare bug. Just as middle-management yupsters lashed out against the oppressive ineffectuality of upper management, so too did young up-and-comer twentysomethings feel oppressed by the IKEA angst of their yuppie superiors. Darwin would have had a field day-suddenly angst is an inheritable trait, passed on from one generation of the urbanite species to the next. Unlike their forefather-oppressors, however, the post-yuppies had no outlet for their angst. They couldn't claim a cultural disaffectedness of their own, as Seinfeld...