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Admission into the creative writing tract will be based on sophomore year performance in English Cab. Creative writing will be offered only as an "intensive program" -the department's new terminology for honors. Instead of the senior thesis, creative writing concentrators will submit a senior composition such as a long poem or a novel...
...complex as the system it directs. Even after two decades of intensive study only about one-third of the genes have been mapped along the length of DNA in the chromosome of so elementary a creature as the digestive-tract bacterium Escherichia coli. The reason: just a teaspoon of E. coli DNA has information capacity approximately equal to that of a computer with a storage capacity of about...
...body's biochemical reactions. Phenylketonuria (PKU) is caused by the absence of the enzyme necessary for the metabolism of the amino acid phenylalanine; as a result, toxins accumulate in the body and eventually cause convulsions and brain damage. Cystic fibrosis, which causes abnormal secretion by certain glands and respiratory-tract blockage that can lead to death by pneumonia, is the most common inborn error of metabolism; it is believed to be caused by a deficiency in a single gene...
Since your tract-society-one can hardly call your publication a newspaper-has seen fit to publish the Kissinger letter composed by Professors Kelman and Mendelsohn and doubtless subscribed to by many of the worthy names of the Brave New Harvard I am sending, for your information, a copy of the response that I have just transmitted to the letter's authors. Dear...
...program will do away with related courses. Seven courses, three of which must be in the language and literature of the area studied, will be required for both concentration and honors in the second tract...