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...Nat, my grandfather, sat on the couch across from the desk, by the window overlooking the shuffleboard courts, the swimming pool, the beach-his haunts on normal days. He seems to be a tall man (although he really isn't), perhaps because he is still so fit and dapper. Bright blue shirt, ruddy tan face, white hair combed back. He is much quieter than my grandmother, a little hard of hearing now, and is very good with a cigar. You might say he plays George Burns to his wife's Gracie Allen...
...They've got plenty of money, too," said Nat. "Just tell me the one you want and I'll have her checked with Dun and Bradstreet...
Major additions in the areas of DNA replication and DNA and RNA viruses are sure to attract some attention. Students who took Nat Sci 5 or Bio 2 or any other introductory biology course before this year and think they learned about DNA replication in those classes will be surprised by Watson's new chapter on DNA duplication. DNA replication is often presented as the unwinding and subsequent rewinding of linear complementary ploy-nucleotide strands of DNA. However, this chapter now offers the Rolling Circle model of DNA replication, a complex model of revolving, duplicating circular DNA strands. Evidence...
...gathering was called to celebrate African Freedom Fighters' Day and to commemorate the date of Nat Turner's death. (In 1831, Turner led an abortive slave revolt in Virginia...
Some of those who made the list spoke indignantly, in the words of Nat Hentoff, of "selective repression." Most met inclusion with scorn. Jessica Mitford vowed to "add it to my list of awards and honors in Who's Who." One of the more intriguing facts in the report was that the speakers had earned a total of $108,000 so far in campus lecture fees, showing that radicalism can be profitable. In fact, the blacklisting probably made them still more desirable as campus speakers...