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...Saturday evening, and in a van parked behind the barns at Chur chill Downs, Laboratory Technician James Chinn performed his postrace chore of testing urine specimens from 18 horses - the winners of all nine races run at the Louisville track that day, plus one other horse from each race, chosen by lot. When he added his test chemicals to the tubes, one specimen turned blue and then orange - the sign that some offending drug was present...
After further analysis, Chinn identified the drug as "phenylbutazone and or a derivative thereof. " A written report of his findings was sent to the track stewards. Nearly 48 hours later, the stewards met, matched the specimen's number with that on a sealed envelope, and ripped the envelope open. Only then did they discover that the drugged horse was Dancer's Image, winner of the Kentucky Derby...
...provided a generous endowment for the move. But unlike the new concert halls in Manhattan and Los Angeles, Powell is no monument to architectural modernity. As befits one of the nation's oldest professional orchestras,* the hall is actually the 42-year-old St. Louis Theater, a prime specimen of the garish era of movie-palace construction. The orchestra bought it for $400,000 and converted it into a concert hall for an additional...
...chromosome closeups were made by German scientists at the University of Münster, using the recently developed scanning electron microscope. Unlike the conventional electron microscope, which forms an image by passing an electron beam through extremely thin slices of a specimen, the scanning device plays a fine electron beam back and forth across the surface of the object being examined. Electrons knocked out of the surface of the specimen by the scanning beam are collected and converted into signals that are projected on a television screen in the form of a picture...
...skull of the ape, named Aegyptopithecus zeuxis (for "linking Egyptian ape"), was found protruding from rock during a 1966 Yale expedition to the Fayum desert. But it was not until the specimen had been returned to Yale and extracted from its rock casement that Simons realized that it was an un usually complete skull of a primate, lacking only portions of its top and bottom and four incisor teeth. "Not only is the skull some eight to ten million years older than any other fossils related to man," Simons said, "but it is better preserved than any that are older...