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...have lived up to this belief. While working as a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, he moonlighted God's Pocket (1984), a gritty story set in that city's seamier neighborhoods, which earned an unusual amount of attention for a first novel. Three others followed, including Paris Trout (1989), which won the National Book Award...
...cause reproductive-system problems was relatively high. "But when we exposed pregnant rats to a dose 1/100th as large," he says, "we found the male offspring showed signs of reproductive dysfunction," including smaller sex organs, reduction in sperm counts and feminized sexual behavior. Peterson also found defects in lake-trout embryos exposed to dioxin...
Bill Barich and his readers had a good thing going. They paid him to do their traveling. He caught the planes, sat out the cancellations, endured bores and bacteria. Then he chucked out all the bad stuff and wrote lovely, whimsical books about the rest: horse racing, trout fishing, quirky people who turn comical, not sodden, after a glass or two. Traveling Light is the title of one of his airy collections, and Barich seems as if he is about to continue with such beguiling folderol as he commences Big Dreams (Pantheon; 546 pages; $24), which records a long meander...
...That is, I can no longer chant '1940! 1940!" to indignant--and utterly defenseless--Rangers fans. As a lifelong Mets fan, the Yankees' success is equally painful. Especially because I spent a good part of my youth razzing my pinstripe-worshipping friends about George Steinbrenner gems such as Steve Trout, Steve Kemp and Steve Balboni...
...technology first became available, more than 20 years ago. By mixing and matching bits of DNA -- cutting a gene from one kind of organism and pasting it into another -- they hoped to make new, improved plants and animals. Over the years they've put corn genes in rice, trout genes in catfish, chicken genes in potatoes, even firefly genes in tobacco (yielding a plant that actually glowed in the dark). A few years ago, Department of Agriculture researchers tried to produce leaner pork by splicing a human gene into a pig embryo. What they got was a cross-eyed porker...