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...anybody who has seen Jurassic Park knows, plants and animals sealed in amber are a potential source of prehistoric DNA. Scientists have extracted genetic material from, among other things, a 17 million-year-old magnolia leaf, a 30 million-year-old termite and a 120 million-year-old weevil. Yet no serious biologist believes it will ever be possible to clone a dinosaur from a few bits of DNA. Even so excellent a preservative as amber apparently can't keep DNA from breaking down into fragments that may be scientifically interesting but are biologically inert. That's one reason many...
...AGREE WITH ALL THE PROPOSED changes, but I cannot condemn them, because only by conquering those challenges can we be like our forefathers. The Republican Party is working toward returning our country to the leader it can be, rather than allowing socialism to destroy all our assets. SHAUN BEST Magnolia, Arkansas...
...first the Dead was simply the nth band in San Francisco's rock scene. But the group could write catchy songs with irony and sidewise angst--jingles for jangled nerves. Ripple, Sugar Magnolia, Uncle John's Band, lots of others offer sophisticated pleasures in a simple form. (Other pieces, played in eccentric signatures, are closer to cool jazz.) To the lyrics Garcia lent humanity with his frail tenor. "His voice was a picture of the American past," says singer-composer Elvis Costello. "You could call it sepia-tinted. It's like one of those great old Civil War pictures that...
Peter J. Dawson Magnolia, New Jersey...
April showers bring May flowers--and new maple and magnolia trees--to the Yard...