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...scientists hope to learn how T-box genes turn on and off. That could give them clues to human birth disorders like Holt-Oram syndrome, which is characterized by stunted arms and hands and is linked to these genes. As for the chicks, the scientists didn't let them hatch, resisting the temptation to grow drumsticks...
...Philadelphia (Ogea 2-1), 7:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Woodard 2-2) at Florida (L. Hernandez 1-3), 7:05 p.m. San Francisco (Nathan 2-0) at Pittsburgh (Peters 0-1), 7:05 p.m. Arizona (Benes 2-2) at Cincinnati (Parris 0-0), 7:05 p.m. Houston (Holt 0-3) at New York (Reed 1-0), 7:10 p.m. St. Louis (Jimenez 2-1) at Atlanta (Glavine 1-3), 7:40 p.m. Colorado (Bohanon 4-0) at Chicago (Trachsel...
...parents use vouchers in suburban public schools. Ohio's voucher law was written to allow vouchers to be used in the suburban schools, but only in those that agreed to take them. Bert Holt, director of Cleveland's voucher program, had high hopes when she made the rounds of suburban school districts to persuade them to sign up. But not one suburb agreed to accept students from the city's heavily poor and minority student population. Result: 80% of Cleveland's vouchers are being used in religious schools...
...must have seemed like a good idea at the onset: Why not retell the mythic story of Orpheus and Eurydice, this time casting the principals as international pop/rock stars? Ergo Salman Rushdie's sixth novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Henry Holt; 575 pages; $27.50), which recounts the fabulous lives and careers of the singer-composer Ormus Cama and his beloved co-vocalist Vina Apsara, as remembered by their mutual friend, the news photographer Umeed ("Rai") Merchant. His opening sentence foretells Vina's death--she was swallowed up by an earthquake in Mexico in 1989--and Rai presents himself...
...PRAYER FOR THE DYING By Stewart O'Nan Henry Holt...