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...Crimson swimmers won events in which they have little experience. Although not normally a butterfly swimmer, junior Karen Dehmel successfully made the switch by winning the 200 butterfly and the 400 individual medley. Dehmel won the 100 butterfly as well, but swam it under exhibition status...
...studying genes, scientists deal basically with two components: one part supplies the code for the production of a particular protein, and the other, a sort of regulatory switch, turns the protein-producing mechanism on and off. In the human body, as in all organisms, every cell contains the complete genetic code and, in theory, has the potential to serve any function. A liver cell has the instructions necessary to grow hair, for example, and a bone cell to transmit information as a nerve does. The reason these things do not happen is that the instructions -- the genes -- are switched...
...enlisted Howell and a colleague, David Ow, who began trying to package the gene in a way that could prove useful to the research of gene expression. The resulting procedure, though the simplest available, might have been designed by Rube Goldberg. The luciferase gene was spliced to the regulatory switch of a gene belonging to a virus that infects plants. The altered two- part piece of DNA was then inserted into a circular strand of DNA, called a plasmid, from the bacterium Agrobacterium. The bacterial plasmid was incubated with tobacco-leaf cells, and the cells were nurtured into full-fledged...
...reactionary clutches of the GOP. And well they should be. But Paul Kirk and Co. seem to have already called the caterer for another victory celebration a bit further up Pennsylvania Avenue two years hence. Much as I hate to be a party-pooper, please permit me to switch gears, mix metaphors and rain on the Democrats' victory parade...
WELL FOLKS, GUESS WHAT? Call it shallow, fickle or anything else you want. But this year I was with you all the way. The Yanks never had a real shot (and Steinbrenner does wear on you after a bit). Maybe you thought I would switch caps for the Series and start chanting "Let's Go Mets." Not on your life. I'm a loyal New Yorker, to be sure, but the Mets are nothing to me. They didn't exist when I was a kid, and loyalties are shaped by those early years of splendor in the grass and glory...