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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such bases are found in DNA, they can be arranged along the helix in an enormous variety of sequences. Each of these sequences contains genetic information that determines, for example, whether a child will have blue eyes or whether a plant will produce wrinkled seeds. But where along the length of the DNA molecule does one gene end and another begin? How can a single gene be isolated so that its characteristics and processes can be studied...
...Graduate School of Education faculty has shortened the length of its Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program from two years to one, starting with the next class to be admitted...
...TELL you the story of Waller Creek. Waller Creek winds along the entire length of the University of Texas campus, furnishing the only break in the mass of buildings. Below my dormitory was a beautiful patch of huge cypress trees, oak trees, and a tangle of smaller trees. I'd been around, under, or in those trees ever since the summer after my junior year in high school...
...hair tumbled in from across the country; at least a dozen bundles arrive daily now. With all of that, Rubin could doubtless fashion a fascinating brindle mop. Instead, he has bought himself a ghastly bouffant woman's wig to wear until his own hair returns to suitably radical length. Surely, going to the barricades in drag is going to give revolution a bad name...
...shirted, slightly flabby guy with shoulder-length blond hair and a floppy walrus mustache stood up from the group and stepped to the podium. After a couple of words of non-introduction, he began to read poems from a sheath of white paper. I assumed he was Richard Brautigan. He ranks very high on the list of characters that least remind me of Robert Lowell...