Word: armadillos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irrational hatred between the film's antagonists, Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. In the recent Che!, he suggested the primitiveness of the Bolivian mountains by conjuring up an original score based on the sullen, pentatonic folk music of the ancient Inca tribes, even using native instruments like the armadillo (strings stretched across an armadillo shell). The film was a disaster, but Schifrin's score won widespread acclaim...
...Ethel was the hostess who presided gleefully when Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was pushed, fully clad, into the swimming pool at a Hickory Hill party. She was the mistress of a wacky ménage that included even more animals than children?Brumus, the huge Newfoundland of nippy disposition, the wandering armadillo that broke up tea parties, the pet hawk that once landed on Mrs. Averell Harriman's wig. She was the dinner-party cutup who once, in mock jealousy at the attention a high Government official was paying another woman, tossed a candleholder at him?to the obvious distaste of Jacqueline...
Unequal Blood. Because armadillo quads develop from the same fertilized egg, they have identical genes. Thus, according to accepted theory, each inherits the same characteristics from its parents. Any differences between "identical" quads, or triplets or twins-in armadillos or any other animal, including man-have long been explained away as the result of differences in environment. But there is a growing suspicion that there are other influences. And that suspicion was strengthened by the recent discovery that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the molecule that contains the coded message of heredity, exists outside of the genes...
...find out just how identical armadillo quads really are, Williams and Graduate Student Eleanor Storrs killed 16 sets of newborn quadruplets, thus eliminating any environmental differences that might have developed as the animals grew older. Then the two scientists analyzed 20 different features of each animal. Among the "identical" armadillos in each set, they report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, there were many variations too great to have been caused by any pre-birth conditions such as different positions in the uterus or unequal supplies of blood from the mother...
Unsymmetrical Arrangement. In individual sets of quadruplets, some animals had hearts, or spleens, or adrenal glands as much as twice as large as those of their siblings. Analysis of organs showed a great disparity in the acids and other chemicals they contained. One baby armadillo, for example, had in its adrenal glands 140 times as much norepinephrine (a hormone that constricts blood vessels and maintains blood pressure) as could be found in the adrenals of an identical brother...