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...years later, the suspicions were dramatically confirmed by the pioneering geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan in Columbia University's famed "Fly Room." Through ingenious crossbreeding experiments with the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, Morgan and his students were able to map the relative positions of the genes along the insect's four pairs of chromosomes. Still, the gene's physical nature remained as great a mystery as ever. DNA had been discovered in the nuclei of cells by the Swiss biochemist Friedrich Miescher a few years after Mendel did his work on peas. But since the chromosomes in which...
Dramatic as cloning may be, it is overshadowed in significance by a technique that may well be practiced before the end of this century: genetic surgery, or correction of man's inherited imperfections at the level of the genes themselves. When molecular biologists learn to map the location of specific genes in human DNA strands, determine the genetic code of each and then create synthetic genes in the test tube, they will have the ability to perform genetic surgery...
Waterloo is not without its educational value, though even that would have been enhanced by a clearer map than the one Wellington uses; the youthful student or amateur will at least learn the elementary strategies of the period and enjoy an eagle's view of the battle that changed Europe's life. As for the golden history and legend, they lie buried beneath this delayed replay of a primer on strategy...
...Israelis questioned, 85% feel that the government is doing all it should to negotiate a peace treaty. They also give stunning support to the government position that the occupied territories of East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Sharm el Sheikh should be retained by Israel in any settlement (see map). Only 7% of the Israelis* questioned feel that the government should be more flexible in negotiating with the Arabs. As Harris notes: "Public attitudes are unlikely to determine policy. But they can indicate the limits of policy within which the government must operate if it is to have the support...
When Spiro Agnew comes to town, there can be 5000 people in the streets screaming Murder. And when Dolph Droge comes to Harvard to plead the case of murder there will be people who absolutely refuse to hear anymore, who cannot contain their outrage as Droge unfolds his dissection map of Southeast Asia. Who cry Murder Murder, and will not stop, and will not hear any "explanation...