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...even with the best of tools, the progress is uneven. DNA, it turns out, is full of surprises. As scientists unravel the secrets of the genome, they are discovering that what they learned from Gregor Mendel is woefully incomplete. The textbook model of inheritance that Mendel found in his garden peas -- in which a trait like the color of a flower is determined by a single gene -- is almost never seen in human DNA. Even a seemingly straightforward characteristic in humans, eye color, for instance, can involve the interaction of several genes. And a complex gene, like the one that...
Steel consumption in recession-racked Western Europe dropped 4% in 1992 and may fall an additional 8% this year, while forecasts through the year 2000 show little growth even after recovery. The steel crisis is a textbook case of mismanaging the decline of a capital-intensive industry. For much of the 1980s, the Commission dictated steel production quotas that kept prices high but also emerged as "a great machine for slowing down the exit of the high- cost producers," says Jonathan Aylen, a senior lecturer at the University of Salford in Britain. Under steel's curious economics, it is sometimes...
Want to learn about the way the human brain works? Don't open up a textbook. Just lift the hood of your...
...first twenty minutes was textbook domination by the Crimson (2-0-0, 2-0-0 ECAC), as it scored four goals on 19 shots against an outmatched goaltender in Yale's Todd Sullivan...
Recent events in Georgia provide a textbook case of this strategy. The devastating defeat that Abkhazian rebels dealt to Georgian troops in September would have been impossible without support from Russia's army. Subsequently, the Georgian leader, Eduard Shevardnadze, was forced to beg Yeltsin for membership in the C.I.S. The endgame is obvious: a bilateral treaty providing Russia's military with permanent bases in Georgia, including control over its strategic Black Sea coast...