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...stage was set for just the kind of showdown Washington had hoped to avoid: a fight in the U.N. Security Council that would strand the U.S. between the interests of its good friend Israel and the diplomatically important Arabs. If sanctions come to a vote, the Clinton Administration will have to choose between exposing Israel for the first time ever to U.N. discipline and offending the Arabs by wielding a veto that the U.S. has not used for 2 1/2 years -- and pray that the results do not disrupt the Middle East peace talks. Playing the ace would be awkward...
...gray metal-mesh cube, 30 inches on a side, sitting on the museum floor like the rest of the industrially fabricated boxes -- Donald Judd's, for instance -- that typify Minimal sculpture. But a few seconds later, how differently it reads! Every pair of holes in the mesh has a strand of gray plastic tubing threaded through it, the ends pointing inward. The whole inside of the cube is lined with these enormous glossy hairs. You can't not see it as organic: sea anemone, vagina. And it refers back culturally too, since its obvious predecessor is that icon of oral...
...United States grew 53 percent between 1980 and 1990. With this influx have come forceful voices calling for one name under which all Spanish speakers can unify. Earl Shorris, author of the recently published Latinos: Biography of the People, favors "Latino," a term whose very sound embodies the one strand that Shorris believes ties all of these people together: their common language...
...then, scientists involved in the $3 billion Human Genome Project will have isolated and identified most or all of the more than 100,000 genes crammed into the human genome, the strand of DNA in the nucleus of each of the body's 100 trillion cells (with the exception of red blood cells, which have no nuclei). And scientists will have sequenced, or placed in order, the 3 billion chemical code letters in that strand, giving them the ability to read nature's complete blueprint for creating a human being. As the project nears completion in the first decade...
...Robert Winston, perfected a technique for drawing cells into hair-thin pipettes one at a time. Then they teamed up with a group from Houston's Baylor College of Medicine and Methodist Hospital who had developed a procedure for rapidly spotting the cystic fibrosis defect in a single strand of DNA, using the gene- cloning technique called polymerase chain reaction. "It's like finding one typographical error in a book 180 times the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in about six hours," says Dr. Mark Hughes, director of Baylor's Prenatal Genetics Center...