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...early January, the fairy tale began to unravel...
...POLITICIANS of the 20th century have attracted as much attention an Lyndon B. Johnson. Even while he was still President, scholars and pundits were trying to unravel the mysteries of the man who gave America both the Great Society and the Vietnam War, and their efforts have continued unabated in recent years. The reason for the interest is clear. Johnson's career represented the basic problem of democratic government: To what extent are policies desirable if their beneficial ends are gained by questionable means...
...repair their phones any more." That is not true-phone customers can in fact keep leasing their phones and getting repair service from their local Bell office-but the confusion is understandable. Although owning a phone has been possible since 1968, when the Federal Communications Commission started to unravel A T & T's monopoly on telephone service, many people still believed it was illegal...
...striking and impressive about The Tangled Wing is that even as Konner shows how much of behavior is already known to be the result of certain chemical and physical laws in action, and even as he confidently predicts that science will, certainly within the next few decades, unravel almost all the mysteries of human behavior, he still holds onto a sense of wonder at Homo sapiens as some sort of gestalt, a sum greater than and transcending its component parts. And it is just this sense of wonder, he believes, which makes us human. There is, Konner stresses, something that...
Although the researchers are skeptical about any immediate medical applications, there is little doubt that the new technique for gene transfer will shed some light on certain inherited disorders. "In a sense," says Palmiter, "the big mice are models of pituitary giantism in humans." It may also help scientists unravel the mysteries of how a fertilized egg becomes a living organism and how gene regulation goes awry in cancer. Concludes Brinster: "This study provides another system in which we can examine the regulation and control of genes, and that is one of the most important issues in biology...