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Fine, but if Silas does sign--keep your wristbands crossed--the Celts will have 13 players for only 12 sports. Who goes? With Wicks and Silas, plus John Havlicek. Steve Kuberski, Glenn McDonald and Tom Bosewell, will highly touted rookie Norm Cook see the light all year...
...Things have settled down to a degree by now, just because we have lived together for so long. I'll tell you how slow evolution goes. To make the usual mutation, which means that one has changed just one amino acid in a protein, and make it become the norm for the species, takes, on the average, six million years. What we're being faced with now is the possibility not only of changing one amino acid in a protein, but of producing whole new proteins overnight across very distant boundaries. Professor Meselson just conveyed to you the idea that...
...bring up the question of how slowly an organism becomes a species norm with the idea that a recombinant DNA organism would become a species norm. I was just telling you how slowly these tiny changes occur in genes, and hence in the proteins that genes direct the synthesis of, and contrasting that with the fact that whole genes and blocks of genes can be transposed by these new methods. Everyone realizes our state of almost complete ignorance, which was expressed beautifully by the NIH guidelines, which state, "At present the hazards may be guessed at, speculated about, or voted...
...quality of education has improved where desegregation has taken place. In Norfolk, Va., massive busing to achieve racial balance in the schools was ordered in 1970. Over the next two years, the average standardized reading test scores for black students rose from 74.4 to 81.9 (on a national norm of 100), while white students' scores went up from 92.3 to 96.7. In Little Rock, says School Superintendent Paul R. Fair, "desegregation is working...
...written by professors and various other academics, and as a tool in their profession, we just assume they'll use it. To use someone else's would seem odd." But Harvard professors are not known for their homogeneity nor their conventionality: there are some who characteristically veer from the norm to write a textbook they adamantly refuse to teach from. Stanley Cavell, chairman of the Philosophy Department and Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, thinks this refusal is fortunate. "If somebody uses their textbook exclusively, you hope they'll have something to say and it will...