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Since rotifers reproduce asexually, a daughter should inherit all her mother's genes...

Author: By Dougles M. Pravda, | Title: Meselson Wins Morgan Genetics Award | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...study, scientists analyzed DNA from pairs of brothers, both of whom were gay, in nearly three dozen families with a history of homosexuality on the mother's side. Focusing on the female X chromosome that men inherit from their mother (they also get a male Y from their father), the researchers found that two-thirds of the gay siblings shared a distinctive pattern along a segment of their X chromosome. Scientists say the possibility is remote that this genetic pattern would appear by chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW EVIDENCE OF A GAY GENE | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

Since Buchanan's campaign began to pick up steam over the summer, the mimicry has become more obvious. On July 11, Buchanan pledged in Des Moines, Iowa, to reduce "the confiscatory inheritance tax now imposed on American family farms"--a populist-sounding gloss on a measure that would benefit those who inherit between $600,000 and $5 million. Four days later, Gramm promised on CNN "to do something about inheritance taxes, which are now confiscatory." In September, Buchanan called for a rollback of congressional pensions in the wake of Senator Bob Packwood's resignation, only to be echoed by Lamar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PAT BUCHANAN SOLUTION | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...Tradition is not something you inherit," said West, paraphrasing T.S. Eliot '10, "It is something you obtain through great labor...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: West Speaks on Democracy At Grad. School of Education | 10/11/1995 | See Source »

WHISTLE-BLOWERS COME IN ALL different styles, but they don't tend to be the boss's choice to inherit the top job. Mark Whitacre, 38, was just such a favorite at giant Archer Daniels Midland, the company that calls itself "supermarket to the world" because its products range from flour to vegetable oil. So close was Whitacre to ADM chairman Dwayne Andreas that the older man regarded the younger as a "second son." And as if to emulate his mentor, Whitacre lived in a colonial-style mansion in Moweaqua, Illinois, that Andreas once owned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HARVEST OF SUBPOENAS | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

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