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...dawn, the mists of spring float over the rolling green lawns of the village of Hinsdale, 25 miles west of Chicago. Petals from thousands of flowering fruit trees swirl down wide, brick streets and settle in pink drifts around sprawling Victorian houses. The casually wealthy suburb of 15,906 seems safe from any kind of drastic change, especially an energy shock. Says Louis Duncan, Hinsdale's president: "We are individually concerned about energy, but our life-style hasn't changed...
...arrived at Harvard was well on his way to becoming the country's foremost mateur golfer. Egan was the first collegiate player to win the U.S. Amateur before graduating, winning back to back in 1904 and 1905. He mysteriously retired from competition in 1911 when he became a fruit grower in Oregon, 300 miles away from the nearest course...
...comfortable, secure life in the support of unpopular causes. Few people recognize or appreciate the work Nelson and his fellow radicals have done and this seems to be a price he willingly paid. He does not speak harshly about his disappointments or opponents and instead, looks at the fruit which his actions helped to bear. What Nelson says about the effects of the brigade's actions in Spain on changing American opinion towards fascism small way we helped to bring that consciousness about...
Okay, and I admit I'm hard put to tell one Hare Krishna zomboid apart from one another. Okay, and what Journal says sounds sorta wilted flower-powered nice. But in "Perspective" Journal editor Sherman Goldman proceeds to use rhetoric like a travelling politician who's eaten too much fruit in a strange constituency. He uses all the fine-sounding analogies and metaphors but there's a queasiness beneath...
...gibe seemed aimed particularly at another Stanford scientist, David Hogness, who was leading the way in a new form of genetic roulette, appropriately called "shotgun" experiments. Hogness was using enzymes to fragment the DNA of fruit flies and then was inserting the gene material piecemeal into bacteria. That way he could reproduce the inserted genes in vast quantities and discover their functions. The technique seems to be working. To date, he has managed to isolate and identify 36 of the thousands of the fruit fly's genes. But critics fear that because the nature of many of the genes...