Word: eggs
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...before marriage. Just to make his humiliations ludicrous as well as painful, he tends to get sudden attacks of diarrhea whenever he is on the verge of going to bed with a woman. Whether in high school or in a San Francisco hippie joint, someone is always splatting an egg in Jimmy's face, which he wipes off with a resilient smile or a song supplied in bouncy measure by John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful...
...aptitude for multiple delivery was what brought the armadillo to the attention of University of Texas Biochemist Roger Williams. The tough, armor-plated animal offered him a chance to check the theory that there is something in a fertilized egg cell besides genes that influences an animal's inherited characteristics...
Unequal Blood. Because armadillo quads develop from the same fertilized egg, they have identical genes. Thus, according to accepted theory, each inherits the same characteristics from its parents. Any differences between "identical" quads, or triplets or twins-in armadillos or any other animal, including man-have long been explained away as the result of differences in environment. But there is a growing suspicion that there are other influences. And that suspicion was strengthened by the recent discovery that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the molecule that contains the coded message of heredity, exists outside of the genes...
Having ruled out both environmental and genetic influences, Williams can only suggest that there are "unknown factors" that affect heredity. Although the gene-bearing chromosomes duplicate themselves precisely in each new cell nucleus after the division of a fertilized egg cell, the little-understood structures and particles in the cytoplasm of the egg cell are not symmetrically arranged. During division, Williams suggests, one new cell may not receive the same quantity of the unknown factors as another, and the result is marked differences between the four armadillos-or between identical human twins-that eventually form from the same egg...
...came here from Italy he discovered styrofoam. He sketches in it--styrofoam is well-suited to sketching because it is easy to cut, join, and texture with just a fingernail or scrap of wood. And he modified the lost-wax casting technique to cast directly from styrofoam, and even egg cartons, to bronze. (In lost-wax casting, one puts a refracting material like plaster around a wax shape one wants to reproduce, melts out the wax once the plaster hardens and then pours in molten metal...