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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PUBLISHER ONCE ASKED Stephen King to write a narrative to accompany a calendar. Each month a werewolf would terrorize a small town until, ultimately, a handicapped boy would come along to save the day. Stephen King being Stephen King, the idea grew into--or rather became--a full-length feature film...
Scientists, however, have been making remarkable progress in a technique that can sharply focus their search for a desired gene. Known as restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), the method relies on enzymes that slice DNA in distinctive patterns; families with a history of a genetic disease will tend to have similar configurations, permitting scientists to zero in on the likeliest site of the offending gene. In recent weeks biologists have announced the discovery of RFLP distinctive patterns, or "markers," for cystic fibrosis, which afflicts about 30,000 Americans; cardiovascular disease susceptibility; polycystic kidney disease; and muscular dystrophy. Says Manuel Buchwald...
School spirit can be awfully hard to find at Harvard. The length of your next paper, not Saturday's football game dominates dinner-table conversations...
...been distorted and is now widely used to mean 'I hope' or 'it is to be hoped.' Such use is not merely wrong, it is silly." He gave "finalize" even shorter shrift: "A pompous, ambiguous verb." Funny was a word that should also be held at arm's length: "Nothing becomes funny by being labeled...
...Tiedge had worked for any length of time as a Soviet mole, he could have protected East German spies and endangered the cover of West German ones. A week after Tiedge's flight, Martin Winkler, a Buenos Aires-based East German diplomat who was probably a double agent, came in from the cold and sought asylum in West Germany...