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LOVE Some species of rodents, such as the prairie vole, form long pair bonds with their mates, as human beings do. Others, such as the montane vole, have only transitory liaisons, as do chimpanzees. The difference, according to Tom Insel and Larry Young at Emory University in Atlanta, lies in the promoter upstream of the oxytocin-and vasopressin-receptor genes. The insertion of an extra chunk of DNA text, usually about 460 letters long, into the promoter makes the animal more likely to bond with its mate. The extra text does not create love, but perhaps it creates the possibility...
...gave impetus to the new German dramatic movement which, unlike that of other lands, is still pressing on to new and violently original achievements. Like Sudermann, Hauptmann subsided as a great creative artist about 1910, though only last year he published the much talked of satirical novel Die Insel der Grossen Mutter (The Isle of the Great Mother) ; and only last week his new Dorothea Angermann had its premiere in Vienna...
Herr Alfred W. von Heymel, editor for the Insel Publishing Company of Germany, delivered a lecture last evening in Emerson Hall under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein on "Deutsche und Amerikanische Kuensterliche Kultur...
Herr Alfred W. von Heymel, editor of the Insel Publishing Company of Germany, will deliver a lecture on "Deutsche und Amerikanische Kuenstleriche Kultur," under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein, in Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be in German and will be open to the public...
Herr Alfred W. von Heymel, editor of the Insel Publishing Company of Germany, will deliver a lecture on "Deutsche and Amerikanische Kuenstleriche Kultur," under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein, tomorrow evening in Emerson D at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be in German and will be open to the public. It is to be given in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition in Copley Hall of German...