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...from the Centre de Genetique Moleculaire laboratory near Paris that scientists there were encountering the same anomaly. As the two groups report in a recent issue of the British journal Na- ture, additional experiments showed that whenever the Paramecium's cellular machinery read either of two "periods" (TAG and TAA) in the standard code, it linked the amino acid glutamine onto the protein chain rather than stopping production; it obeyed only the third word for stop, TGA. At Nagoya University in Japan, scientists have found that Mycoplasma also ignores a stop triplet. But in this case it is TGA that...
...past ten years the number of federal programs like TAA that have been designed to ease the pain of joblessness, spur retraining and supplement the assistance provided under existing unemployment programs has swelled from nine to 18. There are now, for example, special programs for out-of-work West Coast lumber mill hands, ones to locate jobs for unemployed railroad workers, and a new program to find employment for airline employees who are let go as a result of deregulation. The mishmash of programs clearly needs a thorough re-examination rather than just some further tinkering...