Word: inheritability
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...with an inexorable sense of peculiar history and culture. Some ghosts haunt me from a tiny cemetery in Alamance County, North Carolina, others issue from the acres of timber land that my family owns in Northern Louisiana or from my family's tobacco farm--of which I will inherit one-twentieth someday. It is land whose history is that of a great grandfather who played on the LSU football team that beat Yale and went on to win the national championship around Quentin's era at Harvard and of a grandfather who walked from Alabama to Texas because there were...
Commencement is an ancient rite that takes different forms in different institutions. But almost everywhere, the ceremony affords an occasion not only to congratulate the seniors who have completed their course of study but to reflect upon the world they will inherit and the contributions they can make to improve it. In this spirit, let me draw upon the three months I recently spent wandering abroad to express some thoughts on one of the many themes to which Ted Hesburgh has devoted his talents...
...these reasons, the world that graduating seniors will inherit will be a world that we depend on more but dominate less--a world where circumstances force us to look increasingly toward negotiated solutions. If we can neither control our sister nations nor retreat into isolation, we have no choice but to learn to cooperate more effectively...
Getman will inherit a Crimson team which returns eight starters from the 1986 New England champion and national semifinalist. Harvard finished with an 11-4-4 overall record and posted NCAA tournament wins over Yale (1-0), Boston University (2-1) and Hartwick (2-0) before bowing to eventual national champion Duke. --Courtesy Harvard Sports News Bureau
Because the defective site is on the X chromosome, females (who are born with two Xs, one inherited from each parent) are less often affected by the syndrome; their normal X chromosome can mask the effects of the faulty one. But males, who have one X and one Y sex chromosome, have no such backup and are therefore more susceptible. Still, for reasons that baffle scientists, not all females are protected, and some males are spared. "About 20% of males who inherit the gene are unaffected carriers, and about a third of all females who are carriers are affected," says...