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...remedy they come up with is drastic: they junk the entire story about the nephew from Italy (the barber brothers become nephew and uncle) and look for another subplot that will utilize Kramer and Elaine. David assembles the few writers who are around on Sunday for an emergency brainstorming session. Robin suggests that Jerry's bad haircut force him to cancel some plans with Elaine. Larry Charles proposes a bachelor auction for charity; when Jerry can't go, Elaine has to take Kramer instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masters of Their Domain | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...spectators at the Head of the Charles concerned themselves with cholesterol and fat. "Real junk," said one woman as she was handed a sausage generously topped with heaps of sauteed onions. She smiled at the meal in her hands, paid for it and began to eat it on the way back to her spot...

Author: By Joshua D. Fine, | Title: Swimming in Grease | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

MEDICINE/PHYSIOLOGY British-born Richard Roberts, 50, now of New England Biolabs, and Phillip Sharp, 49, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won for their 1977 discovery of "junk DNA." As the cell's master molecule, DNA carries the blueprints needed to make proteins. Roberts and Sharp found that genes -- the subdivisions corresponding to different proteins -- are usually not single sections of DNA, as once believed, but discrete chunks, interrupted by stretches of nonsense DNA that seem to have no function. In protein making, only the pieces of meaningful DNA are copied and then spliced together. The splicing can go awry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genes, Pulsars and Slavery | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

...were really starved. We descended on Quincy Market like a pack--well, a pair--of wild dogs. In case you've never been there, Faneuil Hall is an indoor/outdoor market that houses a veritable cornucopia of food, food, and junk food. A lot of junk food. The most important things to remember, however, are salsa and canolis...

Author: By Ariela Migdall, | Title: Holy Cannoli! Ricotta bliss, via MBTA | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

Outstanding students who fill in an innocuous-looking bubble on the SAT application are inundated with piles of brochures and catalogs--the junk mail of the educated world. Further on in the process, they might be recruited, with all the associated perks--"red carpet tour days," "dinners with the dean," large aid packages, and in some cases, full scholarship offers...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: The Free Agency Applicant | 10/5/1993 | See Source »

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