Word: segments
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Also, the series boasts an open approach, said Joe Jarrell, segment producer. "Traditional documentaries are trying to sell a point of view. We're taking a peek as an outsider," he said. "You can decide whether it is interesting or silly...
John Updike '54 makes powerful statements about modern American life in his final segment of the Angstrom family chronicles, Rabbit at Rest. As powerful, certainly, as any made by social critics like Barbara Erhenreich. But Updike's fiction lacks the tone of condemnation of his contemporaries. Rabbit does fall prey to the pitfalls of technology and culture, but he never looses his sense...
...Bonn's partners in the E.C. and NATO, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is the head of Britain's bothered-about-Germany group, which includes politicians like former Trade Minister Nicholas Ridley and a tabloid- fed, anti-German segment of the public. "Their specific fears are hard to pin down," says Adrian Hyde-Price, a specialist on Germany at Southampton University. "It's not about Germans pulling on their jackboots and marching into Poland. It's fear about a tendency toward neutralism, and that with its enormous economic power, Germany will assert itself and be less willing to defer...
Each gene consists of a segment of the DNA that is found in the nucleus of every one of the body's 100 trillion cells (with the exception of red blood cells, which have no nuclei). And each gene is responsible for the manufacture of a particular protein that contributes to either the structure or the functioning of the body. If the gene is defective, protein synthesis will be faulty and a deformity or genetic disease will result...
Scientists from London's Imperial Cancer Research Fund studied DNA from four men with an abnormal set of chromosomes: each bore an XX pairing that had a small piece of Y attached to one of the chromosomes. Segments of DNA cloned from the Y fragment were compared with genetic material from a wide range of male and female mammals, from chimps to tigers. Only one segment, which contained the SRY gene, was present in all the males and absent in all the females. Working with the ICRF team, London's Medical Research Council scientists showed that XY mice, which...