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...pages of new information and by changing some parts of the first edition which recent work has shown to be inaccurate. The style, however, has not changed. Watson still includes personal comments where needed to propose a complete picture of his topic where the known facts present only a skeleton. For example, when discussing ribosomal structure, Watson says that "not even a semi-satisfactory hypothesis now exists for why ribosomes contain rRNA as well as protein." Nevertheless, in the next few sentences, Watson suggests a possible explanation for the function of rRNA at the ribosome; the reader...
...When I saw that it was a cartilaginous skeleton, pieced such that parts could be missing and saw the fin configurations, I thought-large shark," said Paul Sieswerda, a salt water aquarist at the New England Aquarium...
...ends eight years in the House and moves over to the Senate, Brock will be rattling what he may regard as a family skeleton in the Senate cloakroom. Another William Brock, his grandfather, was a Senator from 1929 to 1932. Grandfather Brock was, of all things, a Democrat...
...Fifth Avenue bookstore. Doris is the pussycat, a randy stray from New York's back alleys who has been in two television commercials, a movie entitled Cycle Sluts, and countless beds. By the time she gets through screaming at Felix, they are both evicted-Felix wearing a skeleton suit to frighten Doris out of the hiccups, Doris clad in her best crotch-length nightie with a pair of shocking-pink hands appliqueed on the breasts. Together they begin just the kind of odd courtship one would expect of two such urban animals. They claw, they scratch, they separate, they...
Catholic publications have suffered most in recent months. Sheed and Ward, once among the most flourishing of Catholic book publishers, has retrenched to a skeleton staff and a spare list of new books. Commonweal, the most intellectual of U.S. Catholic weeklies, has appealed to its readers for funds to survive. Herder Correspondence, a scholarly international Roman Catholic monthly, died in June. Ave Maria, a brightly edited but faltering magazine, tried to keep 105 years of publication history alive by changing its name, content and format; but the replacement, A.D. 1970, expired two weeks ago after only 18 issues. And despite...