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...mental-services division has made a close study of the subject, points out that there is now no funding whatever for research into gambling addiction, as there is for alcoholism. He suggests that psychological research and treatment of the obsessive gambler could be financed by a small portion???say, .5%?of the revenue that states now derive from legal gambling. Any such program, he contends, would in the long run save the states some of the money they now have to spend in welfare payments and court costs for the gambler who wrecks his life...
...existence had been theorized by Jacques Monod and François Jacob of France's Pasteur Institute. Called messenger RNA, it provided the missing piece in the molecular puzzle. It was formed on an uncoiled strip of DNA in the nucleus, imprinted with the particular "message" encoded in that portion???or gene?of the staircase, and then sent off with these instructions to the protein-making ribosomes...
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