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Neurobiologist Evan Balaban of the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego undertook the experimental tour de force to explore one of developmental biology's nagging questions: Where in the brain are the cells controlling specific behaviors? Using delicate surgical techniques pioneered by Nicole le Douarin in Paris, with whom he worked for a year, Balaban cut tiny windows in the shells of fertilized chicken and quail eggs that had incubated for a couple of days. Guided by special stains developed by the French researcher, he probed the embryos' minuscule, 1-mm- to 2-mm-long neural tubes (out of which...
...favorite subject. Before last year's match, he admits, the chess world felt "a computer would have very little chance of beating a top grand master." That myth faded quickly. Halfway through Game 1, faced with daunting circumstances--"an open position, my king is exposed, many weaknesses"--Kasparov undertook a blitzkrieg aimed at Deep Blue's king, the sort of hell-bent gambit that has devastated every pretender to his throne. "Any human being," he explains, "feels uncomfortable feeling his king under pressure...
...Weld undertook a much-bally-hooed bus trip through Worcester, Fall River, New Bedford and Attelboro before watching the Patriots harpoon the Dolphins 42-23. He also shook hands with fans in the men's restroom at Foxboro Stadium...
There has been a lot of undue controversy regarding the Statistics 100 project that Mark Veblen and I undertook last spring. Our endeavor was gravely misrepresented in Juan E. Garcia and Edgar Salivar's guest commentary titled "The March of La Raza" (Opinion, October 21, 1996), and in an article by Devi Sengupta, a co-president of the Minority Student Alliance in the Harvard Independent (October 3 1996). It is not surprising that both commentaries completely missed the point of our project since neither of the authors asked for a copy of the our report. One would think that...
...couple of favorable mentions in the conservative press and, mostly, the Republican landslide in 1994 changed their luck. During the early months of 1995, their cause transfixed the country. The national press and academe, two subcultures where the level of interest in affirmative action is high, undertook the debate on the subject that had never occurred when affirmative action was quietly instituted by Executive Order back in 1965. Republican politicians--Dole, Newt Gingrich and California Governor Pete Wilson, who had just been re-elected on the strength of his support for the anti-illegal-alien Proposition...