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...worried that East European immigrants labored under a "Byzantine" inheritance that would make them inimical to republican rule. Sixty years earlier, Protestant mobs burned Irish Catholic churches. The Senator and the rioters were both mistaken in their fears. Even blacks, the oldest and most abused American minority group, bear the marks of Americanization. Martin Luther King Jr. may have written about the influence on him of the teachings of Gandhi, but when he spoke, the texts he cited were the King James Bible, the Declaration of Independence and My Country, 'Tis of Thee. Minorities assimilated, because assimilation allowed them...
...emergence of TB strains that are resistant to standard medication. In last week's Nature, researchers from Hammersmith Hospital in London and from the Pasteur Institute in Paris report they have uncovered the genetic reason behind this dangerous trend. They have discovered that common forms of the TB bacterium bear a gene that makes it susceptible to the antibiotic isoniazid -- a gene that is missing in drug-resistant strains. The finding could lead to improved diagnostic tests that will help doctors treat people with drug-resistant TB before they can pass the infection on to others...
...fault with no name. For a few seconds, this temblor rattled at a magnitude of 3. Suddenly, seismometer readings soared as the fracture unzipped a sequence of larger faults nearby. Then three hours after the Landers earthquake shivered to a stop, a 6.6 aftershock terrified the environs of Big Bear Lake, collapsing chimneys and toppling buildings...
...Bear? In recent weeks research teams at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park have put this question to two different computer models. The results, while differing in detail, are strikingly similar. Before the effects of the Landers earthquake are taken into account, neither model flags the region around the Big Bear fault as particularly menacing. But as soon as scientists factor in the degree of ground movement and its direction, it pops up on their computer screens, color-coded red for danger...
...conventional, the status quo -- whether in politics or pop music. Their appeal lies in their quirky spontaneity and vaults of rhythmic rapture. By singing the body electric in a blizzard of refracted light and pumped-up sound, ravers embrace a collective catharsis -- and sometimes one another -- in a cuddly bear...