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...garden peas. One of the most strongly held beliefs has been that genes -- whether normal or abnormal -- are passed from generation to generation essentially unchanged. Now that assumption is being challenged. Last week scientists announced that in people with a form of muscular dystrophy, they had identified a segment of DNA that can lengthen substantially with each succeeding generation. Most disturbing, as the fragment lengthens, the illness becomes more severe. "This is not your garden-variety genetic defect," says Dr. Leon Charash, who chairs the medical advisory committee of the Muscular Dystrophy Association...
...Clair and Claflin refrained from culinaryjokes but could not stop themselves from givingfashion tips. Staging a "this is Your Life"segment, Claflin and St. Clair ushered in a figurefrom Foster's past...
...between Jews and Blacks, and the leaders of Black students at Harvard ought to have enough clarity of mind to recognize this and thus to treat Jeffries with the contempt he warrants. Jeffries warrants the same contempt that his harebrain counterpart among those I like to call the "scum segment" of America's New Right--the segment who utter fullfledged idiocy about the non-existence of the Holocaust, cynically placing advertisements to this effect in newspapers and magazines...
...Minutes segment was taped in Boston in a suite at the Ritz Carlton late Sunday morning, with a fire roaring the backround. Dressed conservatively as they sat on a small sofa, the Clintons were calm and collected. They held hands intermittently. At one point Hillary Clinton gently rubbed her husband's back, but there was none of the fawning gaze Nancy Reagan affected every time her husband performed...
...daunting. The spring term is thankfully a truncated version of its fall counterpart. It's only three more shopping days and twelve more weeks to the next encounter with reading period. So now is the time to take the plunge and uphold a promise for at least this short segment of the academic year...