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Part of the 95th's problem is that it breezed into Washington with unrealistically high expectations???a display of naivete not confined to Capitol Hill. After eight quarrelsome years of Republican Presidents and Democratic majorities in Congress, there were high hopes of a new spirit of harmony between the White House and the Congress. Instead, Carter and the legislators were jaw to jaw from the very outset...
...double helix. Once he obtained enough of the enzyme, he placed it in a test-tube brew with a bit of natural DNA, one of whose strands was incomplete, the four bases (A, T, C, G) and a few other off-the-shelf chemicals. True to his expectations???and the Watson-Crick theory?the incomplete segment picked up its complementary nucleotides from the brew to form a complete double helix...
That view may be somewhat unrealistic, considering the constant pining of the refugees for their homeland. In fact, one trouble is the profoundly emotional and irrational nature of many of the Arab demands and expectations???almost an inability to recognize the hard facts of life. The Arabs have seen Israel prosper on soil from which they barely scratched a living when they had it; Israel's success is not only a blow to their pride but a constant rebuke to the dismal poverty in which most of the Arab world lives...
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