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...plotting our footfalls, we are left to rely on our intimate knowledge of the complex topography of Cambridge sidewalks. Since the disappointed faces of those whose bootless feet a momentary miscalculation has left sloppily soaked is a common sight, we may deduce that such knowledge is rarely perfect. Tip O'Neill (the man we have to thank for our undulating brick walkways) must be laughing from his grave...
...knowledge will help. We have all seen those who, hemmed in at the corner of a sidewalk, have reached that perilous moment of realization: The snow is too soft to serve as a causeway, the puddle is too wide for evasion, too long for jumping and too deep for tip-toeing. It is here that Cantabrigians can be seen drawing on their knowledge of Kierkegaard, and taking a heedless leap of faith (faith in what, you ask? Not God, but in the cans of silicone they applied to their Timberlands, of course...
...gene was harder to pin down than the one implicated in Huntington's disease -- which was finally located after a decade-long search last year. Not only did it turn out to be tucked into a particularly hard-to-reach spot on the tip of chromosome 4, but it was what scientists call a "stuttering gene." Hidden in its DNA is a sequence of nucleotides that spells out the same genetic word -- in this case, CAG -- again and again. The normal version of this gene contains anywhere from 11 to perhaps 34 copies of this three- letter stutter. The defective...
Still, reporting Monday's funeral of Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. was anything but a somber experience...
...Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass) who represents O'Neill's former district, said he was also greatly saddened by the loss. "He touched so many people," Kennedy said, adding that "Tip will live on though the example he gave...