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...what they believe are the first known odor receptors -- individual genes that are active in the nose and nowhere else in the body. What is more, the molecules they found seem to be part of an extended family of smell genes -- perhaps the largest single family in the long strand of mammalian DNA. "We have identified a few hundred genes," says Richard Axel, a professor at Columbia's Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "And there is reason to suspect there may be as many as a thousand...
...AWARE Week sets up a much more stringent standard--an impossibly stringent standard, in fact. It asks us to identify and expunge every strand and fiber of insensitivity (as previously defined) from our consciousness. This standard encourages us to obsess about race, which, paradoxically, tends to let considerations of race intrude where they have no business and where they would not have arisen otherwise...
...effective national energy plan must contain two strands: increased domestic energy production and more efficient consumption. The President is ^ tugging at the production strand. Congress appears to be groping toward the other. The question is whether they can weave them together and give the country the leadership it urgently needs on this vital issue...
Perhaps the man who best exemplified this strand of Israeli culture during my trip was a Brooklyn-born man named Mike Ginsberg. Ginsberg had come to Israel just before the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He served in the army and eventually settled at Kibbutz Misguv Am, on the Lebanese border...
However, researchers cautioned against labeling this strand of DNA "the alcoholism gene." The gene's absence from more than 20% of the alcoholics studied suggests that additional factors are involved. Other genes, as well as an individual's upbringing and surroundings, are likely to play an important part. As evidence for an environmental influence on alcohol abuse, researchers point to the significantly higher incidence of alcoholism in men than in women, as well as the rarity of the condition in certain religious groups that discourage drinking, notably the Amish and the Mormons. Researchers also feel that last week's results...