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Jupiter, already suffering a "black eye," was battered again by the splintered Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet. The eighth fragment, K, produced another huge fireball that lifted from the planet and grew to three times the size of Earth. Calculations of yesterday's damage from Fragments G and H are still being made. But astronomers are predicting that the huge hole called a black eye, which was caused by G, may become an even more distinguishing feature than Jupiter's Great Red Spot...
...fatal accident, investigators found Camus's mud-stained, accordion-style black briefcase; among its contents were 144 handwritten manuscript pages containing about 80,000 words -- a first version of the first part of his intended work. Camus's widow Francine refused all entreaties to publish the unrevised fragment, but his daughter Catherine, now 48, who inherited her father's estate after her mother's death in 1979, decided that the manuscript would be made public eventually and that she might as well be the one to shepherd it into print. She spent three years deciphering her father's crabbed, difficult...
Back in the U.S., Aufderheide carried thumbnail-size tissue samples he had taken from the woman to his colleague Salo, the biochemist. Using a new technique of dna analysis called polymerase chain reaction, the Minnesota researchers cloned billions of copies of the ancient genetic material. Then they identified a fragment of dna that is found only in TB bacteria...
...antigen functions by binding to a fragment of a foreign molecule--in the study, a fragment of the flu virus--and alerting nearby T cells of its presence...
...shop in hopes of saving the chassis, while Hollywood and the press looked on like rubberneckers at a freeway crash. Release of I'll Do Anything, planned as Columbia Pictures' big Christmas movie, was delayed two months to allow for reshooting. When the film opens next week, only a fragment of one song will remain...