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...seedier sort. Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, for example, came of age serving liquor to thirsty gringos during Prohibition. More recently, they have catered to amorous misadventures of Americans, offering prostitution, easy abortions and quick divorces. "Standards are a lot higher than they were ten years ago," says Ana Maria Ley Estrella, president of the Tijuana Dental Association...
Donaldson cites Harvard's denial of tenure to Goodpaster and Barbara Ley Toffler--its two associate professors specializing in ethics--as evidence of Harvard's lack of commitment to an ethics program. "I haven't seen them looking around for other people," he says...
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...positive of the mechanism involved," say Drs. Arthur Neinhuis and Timothy Ley of the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Hematology Branch. The scientists speculate that, basically, the drug works by stripping genes of chemicals that have repressed their activity, allowing them to switch on again. The genes affected are those that produce hemoglobin for the developing fetus. These fetal genes turn off around birth as other genes take over to produce hemoglobin for human life outside the womb. Scientists still do not know why there are two sets of genes for making hemoglobin...
FICTION: The Anatolian, Elia Kazan Family Trade, James Carroll Famous Last Words, Timothy Find ley ∙The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Peter Benchley The Woods, David Plante ∙Worldly Goods, Michael Korda