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...streets of Manhattan, his stories have established Roy as a master reporter, one of the few at the very top of the profession who are both unstoppable investigators and caring chroniclers of the human condition. This week's cover story on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 -- the fruit of a five-month investigation by Roy -- is the most far-reaching account to date of the mystery behind the 1988 tragedy over Lockerbie, Scotland. The trail of the story led him through Scandinavia, Germany, England, California and Washington, where he conducted more than 200 interviews and examined thousands...
Brown was re-elected in 1978, but many Californians had lost confidence in the governor. In 1981, the Mediterranean fruit fly invaded the state's Central Valley, threatening to wreak havoc on California's huge agricultural industry...
...workers in the California Conservation Corps (CCC), many of whom were assigned the task of stripping trees of fruit as Malathion-carrying helicopters circled overhead, refused what they thought was hazardous duty...
...protein is one of a family of similar proteins, called homeoproteins, found across species which control development. Mutations of the protein's structure have been implicated in a number of mutations in many regions of the fruit...
...instance, said Instructor in Pediatrics Dr. Ellis J.Neufeld, another co-author of the study, in one mutation of the cut gene, neurons in the front edge of the fruit fly wing do not develop, and the wing appears "cut." hence the name...