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The Yellow Kid. The idea for the school goes back to 1892 and New York World Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who helped usher in a new era of U.S. journalism, replete with screaming headlines and a cartoon character called the Yellow Kid who gave the era its name. But Pulitzer dreamed...
Dr. Hofmann patiently built a copy of the smaller fragment. After he had stuck 13 of the acids together, he joined his synthetic segment to the 104-acid remainder of natural ribonuclease. The reconstituted enzyme proved to have 70% of the activity of the natural substance. Apparently the seven amino...
Dr. Hofmann then synthesized an eleven-acid segment and joined it with the rest of the enzyme. This substance proved wholly inert. Apparently amino acids Nos. 12 and 13 that he had just eliminated are at the "active site" of the enzyme, like the cutting tool of a lathe.
Kaoru Ikeya, 19, of Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, was chronically broke. A $28-a-month lathe operator, he gave $25 of each pay check to his widowed mother. But a little thing like lack of money never kept Kaoru from his normally expensive hobby-amateur astronomy. Somehow he accumulated...
The brightness of the new comet is 250 times dimmer than the dimmest object visible to the naked human eye. It has no tail, no central nucleus, and it is probably receding from the earth. But in the history of astronomy, it has a singular distinction: it was found by...