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...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 it happens all the time, that it's very natural--we're just speeding up a natural process. That's a lot of speeding up. One amino acid change has taken 20 million years in cytachrome...
Wald said today's scientists have the ability to cross wide natural boundaries to merge disparate organisms overnight...
...when my father, brother, a friend and I drove South to my grandmother's house in Stuart, Fla. On the way we were denied a room in a Holiday Inn in Savannah, and wound up sleeping in a "rooming house" (read whorehouse) that hadn't had an overnight guest in years. In Stuart, my father went into a hardware store to buy a Thermos bottle. The white clerk asked my dad, a distinguished professor of surgery at least 20 years his senior, "What you want, boy?" My father struggled to maintain his dignity as he told the clerk...
...business mosaic of Texas is of course vastly more complicated. The Texas economy is a thing unto itself, almost self-sustaining, ever on the move. Today, for example, Texas is expanding production of drilling equipment faster than output of oil itself. Besides its oil tycoons and cattle barons, the overnight millionaires now include such men as Jerry Argovitz, who started as a dentist, offered investment and financial advice to doctors and professionals, and made enough money to retire from dentistry three years...
...poor people. There are markets which cater to a world of culinary and other needs. There is the Kamala Devi Indian imports store at 1741 Mass Ave, there is a West Indian music store, a YMCA, an Acupuncture Center at 380 Green Street, and Shelter, Inc., a recently-formed overnight hostel for homeless men and women...