Word: wachtel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disc includes the standard rocker, this time a Chuck Berry tune called "Back in the U.S.A." With guitarist Waddy Wachtel supplying the characteristic riffs that made Berry's mid-fifties music so popular, the track has become an AM/FM hit single, a sure-fire get-up-and-boogie rocker. But it lacks the power of "Tumbling Dice" or the throaty intensity of "Heat Wave." The song is thin throughout and doesn't hold its own among the other works on this album...
...later life. Thus, doctors are often uncertain about which sexual direction to take, especially with patients who are too young to have developed any sexual identity. Now a sophisticated new test is available to help doctors make that crucial decision. In using the technique, devised by Immunologists Stephen Wachtel, Gloria Koo and their colleagues at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, doctors ignore external sexual features. Instead, they investigate the basic arbiters of sexual identity, the chromosomes...
...sometimes an infant's chromosomal sex will not match its outward appearance. There are, for example, people with a female XX chromosome makeup who display pronounced male sexual development. Wachtel discovered why. Analyzing the blood of these individuals, he found that their chromosomes apparently contained a hidden male factor-a variant of the same signal found in normal males. In the first few weeks after conception, when the embryo is still sexually neutral, the signal causes the development of testes, a source of male hormones. In the case of the XX males, however, the male factor, apparently consisting...
...Wachtel, 40, a former Air Force jet instructor-pilot who only started studying immunology in his 30s, does not yet know how the wrong chromosomes acquire the male gene; possibly the error is the result of a mutation or an accidental transfer of genes between chromosomes while the sperm are being produced in the father's testes. In any case, the test has already been put to important clinical use. At New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, for example, a two-year-old child with an enlarged clitoris but a seemingly normal XX chromosome pattern was tested...
...point is that all the songs were selected with Ronstadt's abilities in mind. The arrangements, instrumentation--which features strong guitar playing by Waddy Wachtel and some acoustic guitar by Linda--and mixing all emphasize her talents to good effect...