Word: melton
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...Johnny Melton, 28, is a man who looks on the bright side. "It was due to love," he explains. Melton is fixing himself a red Kool-Aid at the epicenter of America's most recent landscape of despair, the apartment he occupies with 27 relatives at 219 North Keystone Avenue on Chicago's run-down West Side. The dwelling is as the national headlines described it: drug deals transacted outside but not within; a sink swarming with roaches; a refrigerator filled with rotting and moldy food. An old-fashioned ice-cream crank perches incongruously on a shelf. At Melton...
...never seen a nation as religiously diverse as the U.S., which becomes ever more so each year under the impact of new immigrants. In addition to the various mainstream Judeo-Christian faiths that populated the original colonies, America now encompasses 700 to 800 "nonconventional" denominations, according to J. Gordon Melton, who monitors the proliferation for his Encyclopedia of American Religions. Half of them are imported variants of standard world religions, mostly Asian; the other half a creative and chaotic mix of U.S.-born creeds -- everything from Branch Davidians to New Agers. In the future, says sociologist Wade Clark Roof, "clearly...
...delighted," said Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Douglas A. Melton. "I think both of them bring to the Harvard campus expertise in teaching and research in mammalian development and genetics...
...Melton said that the appointments would strengthen the study of mice and of vertebrate development in both departments, which he said are already strong in research of simple of organisms...
...Both are outstanding young investigators," said Harrison. "I think that together with Professor Melton, we will now have an extraordinary group of experimenters in developmental biology...