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Every living cell contains a minuscule amount of an extraordinary substance called DNA (for deoxyribonucleic acid) that carries in it the traits of heredity. When its home cell begins to divide, the DNA performs wondrously: its complicated molecules, ordinarily like two ropes twisted together, untwist and separate. Each rope attracts bits and pieces from fluid around it and forms a new double helix like the original one. Apportioned between the halves of the dividing cells, the duplicated DNA molecules determine whether the new individuals will be men or muskrats, pine trees or pineapples. The hereditary characteristics of the next human...
...built castles in the sand traps. He was just seven when he talked his six-year-old sister Lois Jean into lugging around his heavy golf bag, went out one morning and broke 100 for the first time. "They wouldn't believe us," he recalls, adding with a slightly acid touch: "And I was putting them all out that day, toe." Palmer also fell into the habit of acting out a dream of the future by describing his play aloud to an empty green: "Arnold Palmer now lines up a putt on the 36th hole. He pauses. The gallery...
Laconic Carroll Cloar tells simple tales of life beneath a sky he sees as both acid blue and searingly hot. "Behind some grass," says he of a painting called The Ambush, "there's a girl. She's kind of a plain Jane. Well, she's waiting for the boy coming down the gravel road. And she's going to get him." Simple? Cloar's scenes-a traveler silhouetted starkly against the sky, three farmers talking hopefully of the spring, two men wandering down a ghostly moonlit road past a giant sign saying, JESUS SAVES-happen...
IRRIGATION (douche) to wash out the sperm after intercourse. The water may be plain, or have added boric acid, vinegar or proprietary compounds sold "for feminine hygiene." Relatively ineffective...
...acid bath left Riesel in a dim world of shadows. The unimpaired retinas of both eyes receive vague images, projected through scar tissue as through frosted glass. Both lenses are gone. He can detect violent movements, distinguish a truck from a car. But to tell time he must feel the hands of his watch; when he is dining at the Men's Bar in the Biltmore, a favorite haunt, friends must help him find the hamburger on his plate -and sometimes even the plate...