Word: zippers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty-six years ago, I was arrested for selling a pair of jeans to a plainclothes Soviet policeman. They weren't even Levi's 501s, they were the kind with the zipper, but that's not why I was arrested. It was a setup, designed to scare a 16-year-old and his 20 teenage fellow travelers into behaving for the remainder of their summer behind the Iron Curtain. And scare me it did, though the authorities allowed me to rejoin my group after a few hours of interrogation...
Arnold M. Zipper...
Fundamental to the genius of DNA is the fact that A and T are mutually attractive, as are C and G. Consequently, when DNA separates during cell division, coming apart at the middle of each rung like a zipper opening, an exposed T half-rung on one side of the ladder will always attract an A floating freely in the cell. The corresponding A half-rung on the other section of the ladder will attract a floating T, and so on, until two double helixes, each identical to the original DNA molecule, are formed...
...posters feature a picture of a partiallyopen pants zipper with the slogan, "ZIP the Fly(and all other sexist clubs)." One poster reads,"In high school, the only place to get away fromwomen was the men's bathroom. Harvard is so muchbetter. Here we have a whole house...
...came because I'm thinking of going back to Miami next year. I'd like to meet alums who are in the field I'm interested in--law," said Arnold Zipper...