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...planning process and The Boston Globe recently criticized us for harping on the rapid administrative departures at Radcliffe. But we have an obligation to report the developments out of Fay House; students have a right to know what's going on with an institution that does (or does not) affect their lives...
...producing stretch of DNA from a noncrop plant, gene scientists managed to knit the lethal genetic material into the genome of commercial plants. They also inserted two other bits of coding that would keep the killer gene dormant until late in the crop's development, when the toxin would affect only the seed and not the plant. But because the seed company needs to generate enough product to sell in the first place, the scientists included one more DNA sequence--one that repressed all the sterilizing genes they had just inserted. Once they had grown all the seeds they needed...
Buell said Bercovitch's absence will not affect English concentrators unless they specifically want to study either the colonial period or with Bercovitch...
...State of the Union Address was the best show in town this week--if you knew who to watch. Clinton was his usual boring self, saying all the right things about all the right causes and avoiding the only topic which may actually affect the state of the Union in the immediate future. The only people he offended in his speech were cigarette makers, by calling for a federal suit against them, and Mark McGwire, by sitting Sammy Sosa next to the First Lady...
...lead to erroneous early-warning reports or even trigger the accidental launch of a nuclear missile. Nuclear power plants could be vulnerable to the same difficulties. Last year, when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission looked at the Seabrook plant in New Hampshire, it found that Y2K problems, unless fixed, would affect the computers that monitored such crucial functions as reactor-coolant levels and fuel-handling systems...