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...enchanting prose of Einstein's Dreams, the strange culture of all-too-human physicists--a difficult task, since Lightman's style has so far shown itself much better suited to fanciful speculation than to plot and character. But the seeds are there; they just don't bear fruit in Good Benito...
Kellogg's lobbyists argue that Raisin Bran doesn't have too much added sugar. Rather, it is sweeter because of sugar that occurs naturally in dried fruit. Dried fruit, they add, is very nutritious. Kellogg even joined forces with Sun-Maid, the California raisin producer, to press for an end to the sugar limit. The debate got so intense that at one meeting in 1991 Agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan and Kellogg chairman Arnold Langbo started shouting and pounding the table. (Kellogg denies the meeting got that heated...
...movie, you say, or the caverns of ancient myth. But, no, this strange beast crawled--actually it flew--out of the pages of the august journal Science last week. In a new study, researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland described how they genetically engineered swarms of bizarre fruit flies-not as an attention-grabbing stunt but as part of a serious effort to understand how nature fashions something as magnificent...
...find out, developmental biologist Walter Gehring and two colleagues focused on a gene known as eyeless. Fruit flies that lacked this gene, they knew, failed to develop eyes. But the researchers wanted to know more about the powers of eyeless. So they inserted multiple copies of the gene into minuscule fruit-fly embryos, and the results were no less than eerie. The flies grew normal eyes--sparkling red, like multifaceted rubies--but they were all over: on the legs, the wings, the antennae. There were up to 14 eyes...
Structurally, observes McGinnis, insect eyes are very different from the eyes of humans and other vertebrates. For instance, fruit-fly eyes are compound, meaning they are composed of many (in this case 800) individual units, each with its own miniature lens. The difference between a mouse eye, say, and a fruit-fly eye is so enormous that many scientists have argued that the genetic programs responsible for creating different kinds of eyes must have evolved independently...