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...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 causes cystic fibrosis...
...second secret trait of the Clintonites, arrogance, might be more precisely defined as the arrogance of lawyers, especially those trained in the Ivy League and working inside the Beltway. Lawyers are paid to put deals together. Restructuring the American health industry may be bigger than ingesting Paramount, but once you give a lawyer the assignment, all the rest is commentary. If a couple dozen lawyers can't handle this, then what good are their fancy educations, and what good have they done by forsaking the even fancier jobs they might have held in the private sector? If the gargantuan project...
Most of the newcomers share an enormously important trait with those who preceded them. They are self-selected self-starters, men and women who had the gumption to pick up and chase after their dreams. They are born optimists; otherwise, why come? Though some are poorer and have fewer job skills to offer than previous immigrants, an impressive number bring with them palpable contributions to American society. A great many new doctors today are foreign born. Immigrants rank high among the entrepreneurs who are making small businesses the core of recent economic growth. As the pictures on these pages demonstrate...
Initially, blacks worked alongside whites in the tobacco fields of Virginia and the Carolinas, but by 1650 field hands were invariably men and women of color. One reason: because of what science now knows is the sickle-cell trait, blacks were often less susceptible than whites to the depredations of malaria. More important, a terrible distinction had been made, first informally but then in legislation: white servants were considered persons despite their temporary state of servitude; blacks were mere property that could be bought and sold...
...blueblood background may be a factor behind another popular Hosokawa trait: his outspokenness compared with the gray mass of Japanese politicians. At his first press conference in August, Hosokawa stunned his audience by declaring that for Japan, World War II was "a war of aggression, and it was a mistake" -- a statement previous leaders never made so bluntly, partly out of fear of stirring up nationalist constituents. Hosokawa dropped another bombshell at the same press conference when in response to a question he revealed that he would resign if his government didn't pass political-reform bills...