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...Fruit flies are among the most sexually proficient creatures on earth. Their ability to produce a new generation in two weeks has made them the darlings of genetics researchers for nearly a century. Put a male fruit fly into a bottle with a female, and he doesn't waste any time before getting down to business...
...bewildering to watch the behavior of certain fruit flies at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. There, in the laboratories of biologists Ward Odenwald and Shang-Ding Zhang, strange things are happening inside the gallon-size culture jars. In some experiments, the female flies are cowering in groups at the top and bottom of the jars. The males, meanwhile, are having a party -- no, an orgy -- among themselves. With a frenzy usually reserved for chasing females, the males link up end-to-end in big circles or in long, winding rows that look like winged conga lines...
What's going on? Without a wink or a chuckle, Odenwald claims that these male fruit flies are gay -- and that he and Zhang made them that way. The scientists say they transplanted a single gene into the flies that caused them to display homosexual behavior. And that's very interesting, they assert, because a related gene exists in human beings, although there is no evidence yet that the human gene has an effect on sexual preference...
...join the budget-balancing campaign by seeking a compromise? For months, Clinton sided with his wife and other liberal advisers in defending the status quo and refusing to propose any alternative plan for balancing the budget. But at just the moment when that approach appeared to be bearing fruit, with Clinton's poll numbers rising and the Republicans beginning to squabble among themselves over tough spending cuts, the President waffled. During a New Hampshire radio interview, he said he would propose what he called a "counterbudget" embracing the G.O.P. goal of balance by a certain date. "I think it clearly...
...sick wallop. It's the throwaway brutality (the kids beating up a black man in the park), the notion that the world is there to be spat at or pissed on. In one of the lighter moments, Telly's pal Casper (Justin Pierce) dips a tampon in a red fruit drink, then sucks it dry. Still with...