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Duboule believes that over the eons of prehistory, Hox genes played a key role in the origin of species, facilitating the process of evolutionary change. Scientists now know, for example, that the genes that trigger the formation of hands and feet also control many other developmental processes in the posterior part of an animal -- among them, the addition of an anal opening to the digestive tract and, in four-legged creatures, the fusion of the lower vertebrae to make a pelvis. Isn't it curious, says Duboule, that fish lack a true pelvis as well as hands and feet? This...
That was where the real history was made, in relative quiet. In a divided vote, the board ended affirmative action throughout the nine campuses that are the jewels of the California state system, prohibiting the consideration of race, gender or ethnic origin in admissions as well as in hiring and dealing with contracts. At a moment when affirmative action is under attack across the country -- and just one day after President Bill Clinton told Americans that it had been ''good for America'' -- the vote made California the first state to eliminate race preferences in college admissions and put the state...
...reserved for the state's academic achievers. As it stands now, however, only about half of all U.C. students are admitted solely on the basis of grades and test scores. The rest have benefited from a complex equation that awarded points for race or gender, including an ethnic-origin formula so hairsplitting that Mexican Americans were given more weight than other Latinos...
...Elaine Pagels. Her much honored 1979 work, The Gnostic Gospels, was one of the rare volumes of religious scholarship to find a general readership. In her new book, The Origin of Satan (Random House; $23), Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton University, examines how the earliest Christians made their opponents out to be the devil. First the Jews who spurned Christ, then the Romans who persecuted his followers, then other Christians who departed from the orthodoxies of the newly consolidating church -- each group in turn, she says, appears in early Christian texts not just as a philosophical contender...
...seniors found the day most agreeable. They enjoyed a lunch of chicken and rice, sang along with the Union Orchestra and watched the Roxy Dancers perform classical dances of Indian and South American origin...