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...fall season will provide Harvard several key opportunities to exhibit its talents...
First of all, they need testosterone and plenty of it early in life. Gorski and his team have found that if they castrate rats just after birth, the animals will exhibit behavior typical of a she-rat with the hots: arching their backs, flexing their tails and allowing other males to mount them. But by injecting these neutered males with testosterone, researchers can return them to maleness. However, such "rescues" work only during the first five days after birth. At day six, the castrates are permanent transsexuals. "If these rats could talk," Gorski speculates, "I think they might...
...replica of Lenin's telephone; a wood sculpture from Fidel Castro; and busts of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Gus Hall, aging chairman of the Communist Party U.S.A., calls his New York City office a "museum of history." But among all these historic mementos, Hall is, unwittingly, the prime exhibit...
Anne Tyler's literary career has been as pleasurable to watch as her books have been to read. Both the process and the products exhibit an organic symmetry. Tyler seems to have known what she wanted to do from the beginning and then to have got better and better at doing...
Auletta's book achieved a certain infamy long before it hit the bookstores. Jacob Weisberg used it as Exhibit A in a much discussed New Republic piece about the alleged decline of editing standards in book publishing. To be sure, Auletta's 600-plus-page account could use trimming. But his writing is never less than serviceable, and usually quite lucid. A bigger problem lies in the subject itself. Each of the episodes Auletta recounts -- Tisch's fight to gain control of the CBS board, ABC News president Roone Arledge's battle to keep 20/20 on Thursdays...