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Dissolved in a test tube, the essence of life is a clear liquid. To the naked eye it looks just like water. But when it is stirred, the "water" turns out - to be as sticky as molasses, clinging to a glass rod and forming long, hair- thin threads. "You get the feeling this is really different stuff," says Dr. Francis Collins in his molecular-biology laboratory at the National Institutes of Health. Collins heads a mammoth effort to catalog the library of biological data locked in those threads, a challenge he compares, not inaccurately, with splitting the atom or going...
Kenneth Lanning, special supervisory agent at the FBI Academy's Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia, stresses that parents should not obsess on murder-kidnappers. Concentrating too hard on "stranger-danger," he says, "is like putting a lightning rod on your home and canceling your homeowner's insurance. You're prepared for one terrible but highly unlikely event and unprepared for a host of things that are far more likely." Although Lanning understands the horror that a Klaas case generates, he points out that family violence exacts a much higher toll. "In the two months that you put all this...
...Rod N. Bennett '97 bought a ticket, butcanceled his trip to New Haven to study for a Chem5 test on Monday...
Restic's first season, 1971, was troubled. Spoiled by 7-2 and 8-0-1 seasons under Yovicsin, Harvard began the season 3-4. Quarterback Rod Foster complained that the playbook was too difficult, having been used to the bash-their-brains-out style of seasons past. Nevertheless, the Crimson finished the year with victories over Brown and Yale to have a record of 4-3 Ivy, 5-4 overall...
...Maniacs fan, buy MTV Unplugged. It's a decent album, not too thrilling, but probably worth your 12 bucks, even if it is no Rod Stewart: Unplugged...and Seated. But then again, what...