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...studied the intricacies of DNA as a graduate student at the University of Illinois, feeling the excitement of a scientist at work on the "fundamental substance of life" as she stirred a beakerful of solution, slowly accumulating a luminous glob of DNA strands on the end of her glass rod. "It was a very simple lab procedure," says Jucius, "but it was one of the most exhilarating moments in my life...
...lowliest of nature's creatures, a rod-shaped beastie less than a ten-thousandth of an inch long. Its normal habitat is the intestine. Its functions there are still basically unknown. Yet this tiny parcel of protoplasm has now become the center of a stormy controversy that has divided the scientific community, stirred fears-often farfetched-about tampering with nature, and raised the prospect of unprecedented federal and local controls on basic scientific research. Last week the bacterium known to scientists as Escherichia coli* (E. coli, for short) even became a preoccupation at the highest levels of government...
...What other star do you know who would eat at the counter with the band?" Guitarist Rod Smarr is talking about the big little blonde on the stool waving back at the truckers. She looks like something Andy Warhol might have created in homage to both Marilyn Monroe and Mae West. She is in fact Dolly Parton, the reigning queen of country music...
...price only because of this-old men have been vasectomized, unmarried people have been vasectomized, young boys have been vasectomized. [The election result] is a revolt against all that. We would not have won otherwise. I agree with incentives because I believe both in the carrot and the rod. But the rod must be very rare, and the carrot must also not make people greedy. It must only be an incentive...
...film expertise (Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew). Novelist Anthony Burgess has written an intelligent script, and the notable cast includes Anne Bancroft (Mary Magdalene), James Earl Jones (Balthasar), Stacy Keach (Barabbas), James Mason (Joseph of Arimathaea), Laurence Olivier (Nicodemus), Christopher Plummer (Herod Antipas), Ralph Richardson (Simeon), Rod Steiger (Pontius Pilate) and Peter Ustinov (Herod the Great...