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...DIED. Sol Spiegelman, 68, pioneering microbiologist whose research on DNA and RNA, the nucleic acids that carry life's hereditary coding, helped lay the foundation for genetic engineering; in New York City. Spiegelman showed how RNA serves as a kind of blueprint whose coded genetic information orders up the production of substances, and also discovered key links between viruses and human cancer...
...Sol D. Pickard Huntington Woods, Mich...
...Although minimal music is often tightly organized, its objective is to create a mood in the listener, not to have him follow a complicated puzzle. Minimal music (the term is borrowed from the less-is-more visual-arts movement of the '60s, led by such artists as Sculptors Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd) invites the audience to revel in hypnotic sounds and take delight when one prolonged, incessantly repeated passage suddenly gives way to another. It is a kind of musical kaleidoscope whose each new turn can reveal sudden, unexpected beauties...
...bravado as their moment of departure approached. Said a colonel: "We are withdrawing but we shall return, just as we shall return to Palestine." In a remarkably short time, the Palestinians, together with their packs and their AK-47 assault rifles, were loaded aboard a Cypriot ferryboat, the Sol Georgious. Shortly after 2 p.m., a full two hours ahead of schedule, they were on their way to Larnaca, Cyprus, as the bombastic farewell salute continued in the city they were leaving behind...
Former Special Ambassador to the Middle East Sol Linowitz says that a hardline, get-tough attitude is not the way to move Menachem Begin [June 28]. I say it is the only way. I see him not as "the thundering prophet of the Old Testament," but as a madman determined to exterminate the poor, homeless Palestinian nation and willing to risk the security of the world doit...