Word: fruitness
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...Mayes-Jones success story is no manna from heaven. It is the fruit of a long, gritty battle to reform the Los Angeles department of child services. Only five years ago, the county was fighting a lawsuit by public-interest groups over a bureaucracy so lax that many abused children were not even visited once a month, the state's legal minimum. "Kids were dying because they were not adequately supervised," says Carole Shauffer, director of the San Francisco-based Youth Law Center. "Foster parents had to make do with 'drive-by visits': they would bring the kids...
...paleontologist friends, David Jablonski of the University of Chicago and James Valentine of the University of California, Berkeley. Primitive multicelled organisms like jellyfish, they reasoned, have three so-called homeotic homeobox genes, or Hox genes, which serve as the master controllers of embryonic development. Flatworms have four, arthropods like fruit flies have eight, and the primitive chordate Branchiostoma (formerly known as Amphioxus) has 10. So around 550 million years ago, Erwin and the others believe, some wormlike creature expanded its Hox cluster, bringing the number of genes up to six. Then, "Boom!" shouts Jablonski. "At that point, perhaps, life crossed...
...Quincy House formal will take place next Sunday night at the Europa Club in Boston from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Dessert and hors d'oeuvres such as stuffed mushrooms, Thai chicken fingers and fruit and cheese will be provided, according to Candace M. Hom '96, a member of the house committee...
...which it alludes. The quote, from the Ingmar Bergman film "Fanny and Alexander" begins, "The world is a den of thieves and night is falling," and concludes. "Therefore it is necessary, and not in the least shameful, to take pleasures in the little world, good food, gentle smiles, fruit trees in bloom and waltzes." As Camille struggles to choose between her puritanical morality and the fulfillment of her desires, we sense that she has these words in mind...
...Reed. Ptashne says he loved with the idea of medical school and changed his major to philosophy, but ultimately decided to become a scientist after working in a fruit fly genetics...