Word: madison
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...have correctly solved the fins-to-feet riddle. Other factors could be involved as well, including homeobox genes that are not Hox genes (that is, they do not affect the overall structure of an animal). Last year Sean Carroll, a developmental biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, showed that a homeobox gene involved in insect-limb formation also controls the genetic signals that paint spots on butterfly wings. In essence, says Carroll, butterflies use an old gene to perform a new trick. "Evolution did not have to invent new genes," he observes. "One basic toolbox gives...
...still another study found that a single year of college can affect a person's performance in the work force. This study, conducted by the University of Madison, found that women who completed one year of college were almost twice as likely as high school graduates to get off welfare voluntarily...
...when exchanging jokes and smirks. And though joking persists even after Judge Lance Ito enters the chamber, solemnity rules once the camera begins to roll. Even home viewers perceive the impact as they monitor Marcia Clark's Di-like makeover, with hair that's gone from shaggy mane to Madison Avenue sleek and a once frumpy wardrobe that now rivals Grace Van Owen...
...Marty Peretz first came into my view when Iwrote the speech for the Madison Square Garden in1993 about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. It was thenthat he told Gore that I was an anti-Semite. Ithought 'this is so stupid,'" Marius recalled in atelephone interview from his summer retreat inTennessee...
Ironically entitled the "Citizens' Legislature Amendment," term limitation represents nothing less than an effort to systematically skew the membership of Congress toward traditional Republican constituencies. Harking back to the rhetoric of Jefferson and Madison, term-limiters romantically depict a Congress of non-professional yeoman legislators. Taking advantage of hot-button political reflexes, conservatives' ideological appeals to the ideal of citizen legislators do not adequately disclose the types of people who will probably take advantage of the `new accessibility to office holding.' As Professor of Government Morris Fiorina writes, such a system "advantages the independently wealthy, professionals with private practices, independent...