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...French name, "painful twitch," is a descriptive understatement; the medicalese refers to the three branches (trigeminal=triplet) of the fifth cranial nerve...
...marinated in a stinging mixture of metaphysics and blood. Mostly they resemble themselves, but something similar might have been the result if the Due de la Rochefoucauld had written novels with plots suggested by Jack London. Stacton writes so fast that he is able to arrange his novels in "triplets"-bouquets of three related volumes-and he turns out a triplet almost every year. Among his novels published in the U.S. are On a Balcony, about Nefertiti and the Pharaoh Ikhnaton; The Judges of the Secret Court, about the events subsequent to Lincoln's assassination; and most recently...
Born. To Aleksandr Revkov, 35, Russian oil technician, and Aleksandra Revkov, 35: triplet sons; in Guryev, Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R. Names: Yuri, Gherman and John...
Actually this description is oversimplified. Crick said, for he feels that more than one group of three bases is necessary to determine an amino acid. Thus while there are only 20 amino acids, there may be more than 50 "sense" triplet groups of bases, groups which influence amino-acid formation...
Most geneticists hold this view, Crick stated, but many biochemists disagree, claiming that there are fewer than 30 "sense" triplet groups...