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...Center research building. The other was Boyer, who worked just an hour's drive away at the University of California at San Francisco. Their partnership had emerged accidentally. In November 1972, after a long day of listening to scientific papers at a conference in Hawaii, they met in a Waikiki delicatessen for a midnight snack. Gossiping about their work while munching on corned-beef sandwiches, the two discovered that their research dovetailed in a way that opened up some highly intriguing possibilities...
Like Berg, Cohen wanted to insert new genes artificially into bacteria. But where Berg resorted to a virus as his transport system, Cohen opted for plasmids, which he had been studying in his lab. As he listened to Boyer's description of his work that night in Waikiki, however, Cohen realized that there might be a short cut. Boyer and his associates had found a so-called restriction enzyme that cuts DNA precisely at predetermined points, and performs this surgery in an especially helpful way: at each end of the severed, twin-stranded molecule, it leaves an extra...
Tourists looking for a quiet vacation are becoming nervous about a Hawaiian retreat. Says Paul Abramson, who owns a Manhattan travel agency and recently visited Waikiki: "Tourist guides warned that we should go out at night only in pairs and that ladies should hold on to their handbags. I think a lot of people come home afraid." Complains Peggy Ontai, who sells conch shells at a roadside stand on Oahu: "This crime has to stop. Tourists are too frightened to drive around the island and get out of their cars." Travel agents report that greater numbers of vacationers are opting...
Hawaii's mystique is also being marred by its overrapid growth. Kalakaua Avenue, the once pristine ocean-front promenade of Waikiki, is now littered with streetside stalls selling chintzy Filipino woodcarvings, paper leis, shell necklaces and aloha shirts. Hookers hang out in front of the hotels, and members of the Hare Krishna movement solicit hand outs. According to Don Bremmer, executive vice president of the Waikiki Improvement Association, Hare Krishnas tell visiting Japanese: "You bombed Pearl Harbor...
Says she: "I intend to improve the physical and social environment on Waikiki and take action against the prostitutes and sidewalk vendors selling junk. Tourism will always be No. 1 here. We just don't have any choice about that...