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...Medical School researchers, working at the Massachusetts General Hospital, report in today's issue of Nature that they have found a gene encoding an altered form of an enzyme, called SOD, common to 13 of 18 families with histories...
Wright's life-span alone is astonishing: his career extended from the beginning of the Gilded Age to the last days of the American Century, from the sod house to the shopping mall. Born in rural Wisconsin to a charming, feckless musician-preacher and a high-strung, single-minded mother -- they divorced when Frank was a teenager -- Wright was inculcated with an overweening sense of his talent and destiny. Anna Wright may have been the first atelier mother: she pushed him hard to become an architect when he was still a child, providing a special set of designer-in-training...
...grew on its own. The Yardlings were all stately white guys who didn't play ultimate frisbee or football on the lawn. A bunch of Cliffies didn't dig up the middle of the Quad for a bonfire. And hundreds of tourists from Dubuque didn't kick up the sod chasing squirrels with bits of Au Bon Pain corn muffins...
...tale of a spunky, apparently mismatched Irish couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who come to the U.S. at the end of the 19th century and come of age in the process. He's Joseph, a tenant farmer whose family is driven off its picturesque corner of the Ould Sod by the cruel agents of an absentee landlord. She's Shannon, the landlord's daughter, who falls in love with Joseph at first sight, even though he turns up on her father's estate, ancient rifle in hand, to take vengeance...
...Scarlett wants to get in touch with her Irish roots, and Ripley wants to get her away from the freed slaves and budding Klansmen of the Reconstruction South. Pushing a complex reality under the Old Sod solves the problem of having to create substantial roles for black characters. When hired to write the book, Ripley insisted on a contemporary treatment of race, specifically the avoidance of dialect. Her method is to retain speech patterns while providing elocution lessons...