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Maryland has been invited to all seven playoffs, has missed the final only once--an incredible feat--and has taken the crown twice...
...Little Feat and Commander Cody--Orpheum...
...being held on May 14? Where? Read the Phoenix, or the ever-popular Harry's Column, or the Onerous Manual for your moped. Todd Rundgren has been rescheduled for May 17 at 8 p.m. at the Orpheum. For all of you with "second show added" fetishes, there's Little Feat, with on-the-skids special guest Commander Cody, at 7 and 10 p.m. at the Orpheum on May 13. You can go to see Dan Fogelberg at the Music Hall on June 9 at 8 pm, since all your exams will be over--messed up Chem 20, didn...
...Lingala curse "Owa na ntolo " (May you die of sleeping sickness). At Nairobi's International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD), a team of scientists has managed to grow in the test tube the long, slender, infective form of the single-celled parasite Trypanosoma brucei. That feat-accomplished by Hiroyuki Hirumi, a Japanese-born American scientist, and John Doyle, a Scottish colleague-has been the aim of medical scientists for years. In the past, whenever researchers tried to culture the bug, it invariably reverted to a harmless form. Thus they were unable to learn much about the deadly...
...learned how to combine genes from different organisms, regardless of how low or high they are on the evolutionary scale. Though the researchers added only one or two new genes to a bacterium's collection of thousands of genes, the creation of such hybrid molecules was a stunning feat. The accomplishment seemed to breach one of nature's more inviolable barriers. Even primates as closely related as gorilla and man are so different genetically that they cannot produce offspring. Thus it was not size alone that made King Kong and his ladylove a mismatch. The real species barrier...