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...prevent them from causing disease but still capable of triggering production of the antibodies that make swine immune. While the viruses in other vaccines are rendered harmless by conventional methods, the Omnivac viruses are altered by recombinant-DNA techniques--in other words, by genetic engineering, or gene splicing. Saul Kit, the Baylor University biochemical virologist who redesigned the virus, points out that existing pseudorabies vaccines, which raise no alarms, have also been produced by what is really a form of genetic engineering. One older vaccine, he explains, was developed by growing the pseudorabies virus in chick cells for tens...
...instrumental in fighting the voting-rights restriction. This month the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the city government to reply to the center's legal challenge to the sleeping ordinance. Churches have offered assistance to the homeless as well, and a few wealthy residents, like 79-year-old Oil Heiress Kit Tremaine, have provided funds. Said Tremaine: "The community has to realize that it's dealing with people and not sacks of garbage...
...human face appears in Wild California: Vanishing Lands, Vanishing Wildlife by A. Starker Leopold and Raymond F. Dasmann (University of California; 144 pages; $29.95). A different breed of actors, seldom seen on Rodeo Drive, populates this sumptuous bargain of a book. San Joaquin kit foxes, yellow- bellied marmots, California bighorn sheep and mountain lions patrol the high mountains and hidden valleys; bald eagles and hawks, herons and condors find their lonesome rookeries. Some of Tupper Ansel Blake's photographs--a grove of bishop pines at Point Reyes, the promontories of Santa Cruz Island fading into the mist--evoke Japanese prints...
...decision with beefed-up advertising. The Daniels increased their sales from $1.1 million in 1979 to $4 million in 1981. Business collapsed when the Government reclassified the gun as an automatic weapon in 1982, but the Daniels got around the restriction by marketing a $300 MAC-10 kit that could be used to build a rapid-fire pistol with parts available from another company. In June a grand jury in Fresno, Calif., indicted the Daniels and two others on charges of conspiring to manufacture and market the parts for making illegal automatic weapons and silencers...
Aside from the feces crisis, there were a number of space glitches, none of them momentous. A drinking-water spigot temporarily stuck, leaving the crew so thirsty that some proposed to use the water in their survival-kit rations. The crew successfully spun off one satellite that will aid air-traffic control, but they were unable to launch another that could have assisted the Defense Department in tracking submarines. Reason: the apparent failure, possibly due to weak batteries, of a microswitch on the door of the canister housing the satellite. Other frustrations included a sticky latch on an air lock...