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...ringed chromosome (which is the repository of most of their genes), they possess much smaller closed loops of DNA, called plasmids-which consist of only a few genes. This extra bit of DNA-genetic small change, as it has been dubbed-serves a highly useful purpose. When two bacteria brush against each other, they sometimes form a connecting bridge. During such a "conjugation," a plasmid from one bacterium may be passed into the other...
Bailey said the judicial system was a game of "Russian Roulette" citing his own brush with the law in a court case in Florida "as a harrowing experience...
...ambassadors decided the proper approach was to appeal to Khaalis' faith. To brush up on the Koran, Ghorbal phoned his political counselor, who supplied him with some apt quotes. Said Ghorbal: "We decided to use the Koran to impress on him that Allah orders us to be merciful...
...only brush with him was in 1954. She remembered standing among the leaders on the rostrum of the Gate of Heavenly Peace to review the parades, demonstrations, and fireworks that marked the state's fifth anniversary. Chou Enlai, always alert to proprieties, made a move to introduce Chiang Ch'ing to Khrushchev. Seeing what was about to happen, Chairman Mao stood up, walked over to Chiang Ch'ing (almost never did they appear publicly side by side), and brusquely escorted her away, leading her down one of the two alleys that ran along the sides...
...first of the old alphabet agencies set up to create jobs in the 1930s was F.D.R.'s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which in nine years sent 2.5 million young men to the nation's forests and parklands to cut trails, build fire towers, chop brush and plant nearly 2 billion trees. Last week President Carter proposed in effect to resurrect the CCC as part of a $1.8 billion program to put youths to work...