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Tonegawa proved that cells accomplish the Herculean task of making antibodies to order by reshuffling parts of the genes that govern the production of antibodies, the cellular building blocks of the immune system. He likens the process to rearranging the boxcars on a freight train. "The dogma was that the order of the genes in any one person is immutable," he says. "The freight train never shifts its cars around." In spite of prevailing theory, Tonegawa found that the "cars" did indeed rearrange themselves in a multitude of different configurations to make the antibodies that fight off diseases. His work...
...discrepancies about Robertson's past have also surfaced. The campaign had claimed that the candidate did graduate study at the University of London in 1950; in fact, he took a single summer course. Several weeks ago Robertson emphatically denied ever suggesting that only Christians and Jews were fit to govern. But TIME has obtained an audiotape of a January 1985 broadcast of the The 700 Club in which he says exactly that. Last week Robertson waffled on his earlier denial, saying that "sometimes one misspeaks and sometimes one forgets...
...There may be some efforts to refine the lawsthat govern covert actions, and someefforts--probably misguided--to force thePresident's hand on foreign policy," AssistantProfessor of Government Mark A. Peterson said...
...offensive on June 15, when Paterson presented the relatively cautious New Jersey plan. It called for a unicameral legislature of limited authority, with each state getting one vote. Others offered plans of their own. Hamilton, for example, declared that the new nation should have a kinglike executive to govern as long as he was on "good behavior." So they voted again, and the Virginians won again, by 7 to 3. And the struggle continued...
Race relations are necessarily going to be effected by this verdict, because not only is a gnawing fear of "tough" Blacks now an acceptable code to govern walking the streets, so is fear of scrawny, bespectacled engineer types, who look like they may freak out and shoot you. What is to be gained by having everyone's fear become a legitimate basis for subway shootings? True, race enters the Goetz case only because society is racist, but there should be some point where racism can not be a justification for action; that place is the courtroom...