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...even with the best of 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Genetic Revolution | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

Throughout his life, Zappa's music was both eclectic and uneven. At his worst he could be amateurish, as in the early Return of the Son of Monster Magnet. On guitar Zappa was no Eric Clapton, and as a band the Mothers were no match for Lou Reed's raw Velvet Underground, with whom they shared an in-your- face aesthetic that guaranteed zero radio play. At his best, however, Zappa fused two seemingly irreconcilable 20th century musical strains; his masterpiece, Absolutely Free (1967), is a dazzling merger of Stravinsky and Varese with rock and rhythm and blues. Who else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Duke of Prunes: Frank Zappa (1940-1993) | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

Instead, Clinton has settled into a foreign policy that looks suspiciously like Bush's. He has muted his criticism of China's human-rights record; such concerns were quietly pushed to the sidelines during the Seattle summit. His uneven policies in Bosnia, Haiti and Somalia have raised serious questions about U.S. leadership in international affairs...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: Clinton's Reluctant Donkey | 12/3/1993 | See Source »

Lately, Bad Religion has been in a slump.Recent efforts such as Generator have beenof uneven quality, and the band has seemedlistless and uninspired in concert. For BR fansthen, Recipe For Hate has been awaited witha mix of anxiousness and trepidation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The revival is here | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...songs take chord structures simpler, even, than Lois Maffeo's--simpler than anything; sometimes only two chords will do for a whole song, switching back and forth in sinuously uneven rhythms like the ghosts of hobo-laden freight trains switching tracks. There are no guitar "pyrotechnics" allowed, or even possible, here; there's not even much distortion, despite the Sub Pop name on the label (though recording at AmRep Studios in Minneapolis must have helped to put an electric edge on the guitar sound, an edge that's developed only since last year). Rebecca Gates' playing has to carry...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: Too Odd, Knox | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

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