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When his supervisor suggested he stock up on waterbed patches, Greg Higgins, manager of Store 24, thought the man was crazy. But then Higgins reflected and realized that "when someone needs a waterbed patch, he really needs it," so he invested in a small shelf's worth. Sure enough, a couple of months later a woman came into the store at 2 a.m., looked around and exclaimed, "Oh, my God--you have them!" To Higgin's stupefaction, she bought two packages of patches. "How often does she expect the thing to get punctured?" he remembers wondering...
...genes of viruses and bacteria. Rather, for the past four decades, Geneticist Barbara McClintock has been carefully breeding and crossbreeding corn, trying to cull from it some kernels of truth about the secrets of genetic diversity, just as the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel did in his famous pea patch more than a century ago. McClintock's colleagues, caught up in the latest wizardry of genetic engineering, have long marveled at the skill and diligence with which she pursued such classical genetics, but they were sometimes patronizing about her work. After all, it seemed totally out of the mainstream...
...renounce the hands-on healing that launched Roberts, now 63, to fame 30 years ago. But, insists Orthopedic Surgeon James Winslow, the facility's chief executive officer: "What we're doing here is not a substitute for good medicine. We'll stop the bleeding or patch the air leak in the lung and pray at the same time." No medical procedures are expressly forbidden, but abortions will not be performed for birth control. The facility will draw its patients primarily from Roberts' 3 million followers or "partners," half of whom donated all the money needed...
Less and less able to cope, Willy has taken to working in his "garden," a tiny patch of dirt behind his house in choking Brooklyn in the middle of the night. He is trying to plant something, he yells up to his frantic wife and angry, embarrassed sons; he wants to rid himself of the "kind of temporary feeling" he has about his life. Wheeler handles the symbolism of this scene very well, blacking out the otherwise ever-present kitchen set and using subtle filters in the lighting to create a dreamlike effect...
...decades ago. In 1941, fearful that the Germans might launch a series of airborne biological-warfare attacks against the civilian population, British authorities asked scientists at the Porton Down bacteriological research unit to conduct a series of experiments. The site: Gruinard Island, a bleak, uninhabited, 1½ mile-long patch of land that lies just 600 yds. off the west coast of northern Scotland. The tests were conducted with Bacillus anthracis, better known as anthrax, which has lethal and well-documented effects on both animals and humans. Anthrax is believed to have caused the fifth plague in Egypt mentioned...