Word: traite
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...irony makes him a perfect manipulator of international diplomacy. "Don't try to ram against the inevitable," he advises a young black assistant. "Instead, tinker with the timing." If Lushinski has a tender spot, it is his irritation at being reminded that he is Jewish. Ozick displays this trait without venom but with lacerating irony. She leaves the strong impression that nothing bad will ever again happen to Lushinski because nothing he can recognize as good will ever happen to him either...
...majority of wild-plant gathering. Thus Wilson is being very cautious when he says "There is no compelling reason to conclude that men did the hunting while women stayed at home" (during early human evolution) for "Comparisons with other primate species offer no clue as to when the trait appeared...
...range in subject matter from genetics to abstract art to the plight of Soviet Jews. Sometimes these digressions are too wide, the narrative too rambling. Despite the authors' obvious care to avoid repetition, the book could have used a slight pruning. But good writing is clearly a family trait, as are the zest, humor and sensitivity that make An American Family this young year's best-informed and most unusual travel book...
...steadily closer to the day when they will be able to reproduce the DNA molecule essential to life. Harvard University Biochemists Argiris Efstratiades, Fotis Kafatos, Thomas Maniatis and Allen Maxam report that they have copied a mammalian gene, a unit of the DNA molecule that transmits a specific inherited trait. Their creation: the gene that orders the production of hemoglobin-a blood component-in rabbits...
...will form a small company, buy a rundown house, spend three hours a week fixing it up, and then try to sell it. The university aims to teach that "there is still worth in the old notions of independence, pride in workmanship and craftsmanship." Perhaps self-reliance is a trait that can not be taught as a sort of fourth R, but a university determined to give students the broadest outlook could hardly try to teach anything more important...