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Perhaps they mean no harm. After all, if they really wanted to run roughshod over convention, they might have gone for the more muscular "working class" or even dusted off the dread "proletariat." Middle class is the wimpiest term in the lexicon of social taxonomy, meaning little more than not rich, not poor. Ask what class we're in, and we all shrug modestly and say, "Middle, you know, like everyone else...
Kunkel's lab cloned the Duschene gene which has been linked to muscular dystrophy, a genetic disease which causes muscles to waste away...
Gender tests first appeared in 1966, in response to suspicions that muscular, medal-winning East bloc women were really men in disguise. Female athletes had to parade nude before a panel of gynecologists to be certified as women. By 1968, this demeaning practice was abandoned in favor of a more dignified and supposedly more scientific chromosome exam. But no one guessed that it would backfire against women like Patino...
...Muscular dystrophy sufferers yesterday said they are looking forward to the cure the discovery may bring...
...research was partially funded by the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Brooks is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of MIT professor David E. Housman, who announced earlier this month that muscular dystrophy was linked to an enlarged and unstable area of the same chromosome on which CTG appears...