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Kellogg, Pfister said, has been concentrating on evolution among different classes of grasses. Baum's specialty is floral development, specifically the subset called baobabs found in Madagascar and Australia...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Plant Expert Tenured | 7/9/1993 | See Source »

...scores and grades and other so-called objective criteria are only one subset of the many criteria we use," Fitzsimmons said...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: Report Discloses SATs, Admit Rate | 5/7/1993 | See Source »

...most surprising findings has been the discovery of a subset of healthy, long-term survivors who have lived for years with CD4 counts less than 200. For the most part, they do not develop the secondary infections that are associated with AIDS, or if they do, they tend to recover. This only goes to prove that there is a lot about the immune system that immunologists still do not understand. Some researchers believe these men managed to press other white blood cells into service to make up for the CD4 deficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Some People Immune to AIDS? | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

Kevin became Baby Insane, and a Crip. As such, his totem color was blue, and his mortal enemies, who wore red, were Bloods, and in particular a nearby Bloods subset called the Skyline Pirus. (Black Crips and Bloods gangs, now nationwide, got their start in Los Angeles in the early '70s.) The bonding ritual was a subadolescent mumbo jumbo of slogans and hand signs, like those used by adult fraternal groups. Car theft, drug selling and smash-and-grab robbery (smash a storefront with a car, wait for the glass to settle, and grab the goods) were agreeable moneymakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in the 'Hood | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

Scientists begin to map and sequence genes by amplifying a subset of a particular chromosome, Church says. They then use biochemical methods to divide the subset into smaller fragments, he says...

Author: By Robin Kolodny, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MAPPING THE HUMAN GENOME: | 2/26/1992 | See Source »

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