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When 1,279 scientists gathered at the prestigious Soviet Academy of Sciences last week to select delegates to the new Soviet parliament, nobody expected them to be happy. The procedure by which their slate of candidates was chosen had been widely criticized as both undemocratic and politically biased. In a series of "pre-electoral" meetings, the academy's ruling presidium had narrowed a list of 121 nominees to 23, eliminating such proponents for reform as space scientist Roald Sagdeyev and human-rights activist Andrei Sakharov...
...until 1911 that a gene, only a theoretical entity at the time, was correctly assigned to a particular chromosome. After studying the pedigrees of several large families with many color-blind members (males are primarily affected), Columbia University scientist E.B. Wilson applied Mendelian logic and proved that the trait was carried on the X chromosome. In the same manner over the next few decades, several genes responsible for such gender-linked diseases as hemophilia were assigned to the X chromosome and a few others attributed...
...embassy to attend Bush's brisket, beans and beer supper. Fang, an astrophysicist expelled from the Communist Party and fired from his job as a university vice president in 1987, was startled; by demanding democracy and calling socialism "the scourge of humanity in this century," the outspoken scientist has gone further than any other dissident in angering Chinese officials...
Joan W. Scott, a social scientist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, discussed the development of women's history as a field and the importance of integrating women into the study of history as a whole...
...already champing to go further. Candidate Yeltsin, for one, called for an open discussion of the possibility of introducing a multiparty system before the next Soviet election. Seated in a hall beneath a banner that proclaimed THE ELECTION OF U.S.S.R. PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES IS A SCHOOL FOR DEMOCRACY, nuclear scientist Yasen Shevelev, 63, marveled at the change in political climate. Said he: "It's hard to believe any of this is happening...