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...that encode them. Structural biologist Stephen Burley of Rockefeller University estimates that the maximum number of distinct shapes may be as few as 5,000. The NIGMS hopes to construct a lexicon of shapes--barrels, doughnuts, globular spheres, molecular zippers and so on--that when mixed and matched will spell the shape of any gene's product. About 1,000 of these structures--and the genes that code for them--have already been cataloged...
...Montauk, on New York's Long Island; Corona Corona cigars; a straw skimmer hat; Herman Wouk. Things that drove him up the wall: misinformation about medicine in movies or on TV; strangers calling him by his first name; my frequent playing of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' I Put a Spell on You; and me, at least before I achieved...
While all those conditions can spell big trouble, the fact remains that the majority of folks probably suffer from none of them. In most cases, it's possible to hang on to the memory you've got well beyond middle age--and perhaps even improve it a bit. "Having a good memory is often just a matter of practicing memory wellness," says clinical psychologist Cynthia Green, author of the book Total Memory Workout...
...SPELL SMARTY-PANTS...
Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73, Harvard's director of admissions, emphasizes that it is not unusual for a particular high school to have a dry spell. Her office admits applicants, not schools...