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Back in the U.S., Aufderheide carried thumbnail-size tissue samples he had taken from the woman to his colleague Salo, the biochemist. Using a new technique of dna analysis called polymerase chain reaction, the Minnesota researchers cloned billions of copies of the ancient genetic material. Then they identified a fragment of dna that is found only in TB bacteria...
...word Wasp -- white Anglo-Saxon Protestant -- conjures a thumbnail history such as this, compounded of memories of textbooks and shreds of slander. As thumbnail histories go, it is not inaccurate, except that it leaves out the Wasp's greatest legacy: the American character. Whether we like it or not, all the rest of us in becoming American have become more or less Wasps. Americanization has historically meant Waspification. It is the gift that keeps on giving...
...industry. Thanks largely to recent innovations in microprocessor technology, many of today's desktop machines are just as powerful as closet- size mainframes. The latest entry is the Pentium, a new chip developed by Intel that is almost as fast as some supercomputers. The chip, the size of a thumbnail, contains 3.1 million transistors. Not only does the Pentium -- which will be the "brain" of personal computers -- have plenty of giddyap, it will be priced at levels that are relatively low for new- generation processors. PCs incorporating the Pentium could cost as little...
Given this natural human propensity for making thumbnail sketches of different types of people, removing all references to Indians from team names is unlikely to prevent people from having a generic image of "the Indian," just as they have one of "the English," "the artist," or "the New Yorker...
...love stories, separated by a quarter-century but analogous in a number of tantalizing ways; a detective story, pieced together from random clues, tracing the disappearance of a brilliant young scientist from a quest that seemed to promise him a Nobel Prize; a sprinkling of charts, tables and graphs; thumbnail histories of Western music and painting and of newer subjects like information theory and computer programming; a white-knuckle account of the race to find the meaning of life within a molecule; and the constant hum of intellectual enchantment...