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...bacteria have been altered by genetic engineers to turn a brilliant shade of blue in the presence of a compound called X-Gal. Declares Benton Box, dean of Clemson's College of Forest and Recreation Resources: "The potential we now have for tracking a genetically altered organism in the soil offers a tremendous opportunity. I think this is going to be a breakthrough." Says Jane Rissler, of the Environmental Protection Agency's office of toxic substances: "Unlike larger organisms, which can be tracked visually, these microorganisms are simply very small. The public has a right to know where they...
...DISCUSSION in my Tuesday night section on the Civil War and Reconstruction figured to center on that week's reading, Eric Foner's analysis of the Republican Party, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. But the discussion quickly turned from Foner to Clifford Geertz, a cultural anthropologist that none of the dozen or so history concentrators assembled in a Mather classroom had ever heard...
...zones. The Sandinistas contend that these moves demonstrate their commitment to the plan and to the region-wide cease-fire scheduled to begin Nov. 5. The White House counters that no peace can endure so long as the Sandinistas fail to evict Cuban and Soviet advisers from Nicaraguan soil and refuse to negotiate a cease-fire directly with the contra leadership. Neither action is required under the terms of the accord...
That's our thing, isn't it? Denial -- of pleasure, of all the stronger emotions. But of course they are there, and I admire the patient way you dig them out of our frozen soil. Dale Uecker flunking his algebra final his senior year and bravely tasting the glories of humiliation ("Tests and graduation don't matter because now I know . . . that the important thing is life itself") and being pulled back from the brink by good gray Mr. Dentley giving him a C ("Basically you understand the material"). David Tollefson and Agnes Hedder breaking up their marriages and running...
Organized smuggling rings control much of the illegal-alien traffic into Puerto Rico. They do an especially brisk business with Dominicans, many of whom sell all their belongings for a chance to get to U.S. soil. While some Dominicans land in Puerto Rico, others travel to the continental U.S., ( especially New York City. The going rate for a no-frills, no-guarantees trip across the Mona Passage is as high as $1,000. More deluxe trips, complete with falsified documents and a truck ride to San Juan, can cost thousands of dollars...