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...senior biology concentrator, who owns an African pygmy hedgehog named "Tigger," explains her difficulties...
...hear that with some serious attention, you can get a hedgehog to be friendlier and more petlike', but it's hard to be a student here and do anything other than school, so I don't get to play with him much," she said. "I am looking forward to getting a pet that actually loves me back; when I graduate, I might get a puppy...
What biochemical magic underlies this incredible metamorphosis? The instructions programmed into the genes, of course. Scientists have recently discovered, for instance, that a gene nicknamed "sonic hedgehog" (after the popular video game Sonic the Hedgehog) determines the fate of neurons in the spinal cord and the brain. Like a strong scent carried by the wind, the protein encoded by the hedgehog gene (so called because in its absence, fruit-fly embryos sprout a coat of prickles) diffuses outward from the cells that produce it, becoming fainter and fainter. Columbia University neurobiologist Thomas Jessell has found that it takes middling concentrations...
...girls rarely seem to have either the chance or the inclination to get plugged in. Just ask Ralph Howell, a New Jersey pharmacologist, who got a Sega game player for his daughter Emily three years ago, when she was six. Emily loved the rollicking Sonic the Hedgehog but turned up her nose at a race-car program and one based on the hit flick Jurassic Park. "Anytime I brought home another game, she just wasn't interested," Howell says. He finally quit shopping...
...irony is that in the post-cold war era, governing is a fox's job, and campaigning a hedgehog's profession. Dole has proved himself as a fox, but he can't get anyone to see him as a hedgehog. What Dole could but won't say is that Clinton is no different from him: a fox in hedgehog's clothing...