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Mercader proved a model prisoner, was soon managing the prison radio shop and teaching illiterate prisoners to read and write. Some mysterious source kept him well supplied with money and under Mexico's lenient laws, he enjoyed such comforts as books, special food, carpets on his cell floor, and the weekly visits of his common-law wife, a nightclub entertainer named Rogelia Mendoza. Last week, some three months before his term expired, Mercader was hustled out of prison and aboard an airliner to Cuba, a procedure that enabled the Mexican government to get rid of an undesirable character...
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...
...Marmur-Doty work was supported by the U.S. Public Health Service, which is, of course, vitally interested in anti-cancer research. Cancer is an excessive multiplication of human body cells, and any new knowledge about DNA, a key substance of cell division, is important in cancer research. But beyond such specifics, Marmur and Doty seemed to be approaching some answers to the mystery of life itself...
...rest are burglars, bad-check artists, or men caught up in the narcotics racket. Alcoholism is the commonest complicating factor, and a prison branch of A.A. offers help. By administrative fiat, but for no good psychiatric reason, all homosexuals rated as "effeminate" or "aggressive" are housed in a single cell block. These are among the least hopeful cases...
Leap Year. In London, after Michael Moore, 33, serving four years for burglary, was allowed out of his Pentonville Prison cell to marry Hazel Dunphey in a nearby church, he went through the ceremony with two police escorts watching, signed the register, kissed his bride, dashed up the aisle and escaped...