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Timing may also explain the progression of fins to feet. In tetrapods (four-legged animals), feet do not grow straight out of the leg, proceeding from the ankle out, but develop in a fanlike progression that runs from the smallest digit to the largest. In Geneva, Duboule and his colleagues tracked the activity of four Hox genes in the budding feet of embryonic mice and found precisely this pattern. By contrast, studies showed that in the zebrafish, the Hox genes switch off earlier, perhaps to ensure that a flexible fin ray (useful for swimming) will form in the place...
...artistically, he was entirely a European. None of the American preoccupations with national landscape found the smallest echo in his work--not the sublime rhetoric of Frederick Church, not the tight-surfaced stillness of the Luminists and certainly not the blunt factuality of Winslow Homer. Whistler was a superb topographical etcher, as his scenes of London, Amsterdam and Venice show; but he cared nothing for realism when aesthetics pointed away from...
Again, Harvard was plagued by lack of depth. "We were by far the smallest team out there," Henry said. "Princeton and Penn doubled our numbers...
...flying glass and masonry; the bloody, broken bodies and screams of the injured--is traumatic enough to throw most adults into profound shock. But if the grownups who survived the Oklahoma City explosion are numb in its aftermath, what could be going through the minds of the blast's smallest and most vulnerable victims, the children...
...April 25 season opener approaches, and more of the job seekers will descend upon Homestead as clubs pass on players they would have ordinarily kept. Baseball may be back, but it's not baseball as usual. Last week the Montreal Expos, who had the best team-and smallest payroll-in baseball when the strike hit on Aug. 12, virtually gave away centerfielder Marquis Grissom, reliever John Wetteland and starter Ken Hill because management didn't want to pay them...