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...today's CRIMSON reports an address by Dr. Chase Peterson, Dean of Admissions in Harvard College, to a group of "Jewish faculty members," and I, along with other Faculty members with whom I have spoken, consider this report extremely disturbing. For my part, the perturbation is two-fold...
...hailstones. Polanski, 37, whose appearance suggests a Polish leprechaun, bounded all over his set, doing a little of everybody's job-digging up a rock, moving a prop, holding a horse. His eye for detail is such that he would interrupt a sword fight sequence to adjust the fold of a cloak, or, if a natural rainstorm did not seem convincing enough, supplement it by hosing the actors with water. Far from complaining, the youthful cast seemed caught up in his energy. When Jon Finch was not starring as Macbeth, he would hop on a horse and ride...
...mutual funds do break into the exchange, brokers fear that they will lose so much in commissions that quite a few houses will be forced to fold. For their part, the mutual-fund men contend that there is more at stake than the row over commissions. They say that the brokers' entry into the mutual-fund business raises grave questions of conflict of interest. One reason: brokers may be tempted to "churn" the portfolios of their own mutual funds-that is, buy and sell excessively in order to earn commissions. Last week's move by Dreyfus...
...complex molecule, a chain of 188 amino acids with two loops, one containing six subunits, the other 93. To reproduce the molecule, Li and his associates had first to determine the order of the acids in the chain and then reconstruct them from available ingredients. Finally they had to fold the chain and its loops into the precise size and three-dimensional shape of the natural hormone. Li's work was made even more difficult by the scarcity of natural HGH. All of the HGH presently available for either treatment or research must be obtained from the recently deceased...
...identified the structure of the HGH molecule in 1966, spent two years learning how to fold his synthetic substitute, two more constructing the chemical bridges between the loops. The result, a synthetic molecule that has about 10% of the growth-producing properties of the natural hormone, more than justifies his efforts. The hormone not only controls growth but also has a profound influence on important bodily functions, including the metabolism of sugar, fats and proteins, and the production of sex hormones. Chemical production of the compound on a large scale would guarantee a plentiful supply for research into...