Word: suspect
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...making his magazine different from Foreign Affairs. "There are several things that we don't want to duplicate," he says. "We are mostly a magazine about U.S. foreign policy-providing an informed critique by people outside government, not articles by foreign ministers which nine times out of ten you suspect they didn't even write themselves. These are people willing to stick their necks out more than in a scholarly journal." Campbell sees Foreign Policy as a vehicle for including young and unpublished people, as well as old names in the foreign policy discussion...
...would such genetic repetition help man? Some theorists suspect that the "spare" DNA plays a regulatory role, perhaps switching other genes on and off at just the right moment during the involved process of protein manufacturing. Harvard Biochemist Charles Thomas, however, supports a more radical idea. He thinks that the repeated segments are actually "slaves" of a "master" gene from which they have been copied. Working in tandem, explains Thomas, such "slaves" could produce proteins more quickly and efficiently?though, he admits, not necessarily in greater diversity...
Amniocentesis, performed between the 13th and 18th weeks of pregnancy, is not without some risk to both mother and baby. But in cases where family history leads them to suspect genetic defects, physicians feel that the benefits more than justify the danger; for the tests, which have been carried out on more than 10,000 women in the U.S. alone in the past 40 years, have proved extremely accurate. Using amniocentesis, Dr. Henry Nadler, a Northwestern University pediatrician, diagnosed mongolism in ten of 155 high-risk pregnancies tested. Subsequent examination of the fetuses showed that his diagnosis was correct...
...past decade, Congress has viewed federal aid to education in three different ways: first as a suspect notion, then as a sacred cow and now as a bog of bureaucratic hobbling. Last week the general confusion left U.S. public schools facing considerable uncertainty...
...those modern "library navigators" (particularly Yalemen) who in 1965 swallowed whole the Vinland map story. Morison sees a fine post-1600 hand behind this document, which was dated about 1440 by its discoverers. "I have 'serious reservations,' " he writes, "the polite scholarly term for saying that you suspect fakery." Growling about "phony voyages," he swiftly slaps down as nonsense the folk legend of Prince Madoc and the Welsh-speaking Indians...