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What makes a man? Biologists have long known that the answer lies not in what but in Y. To create a male child, a father's sperm must carry a Y chromosome to fertilize a mother's egg, which always bears an X chromosome. But the site of the specific gene on Y that determines maleness has been elusive. Last week, though, scientists in Britain announced in Nature that they have identified a section of DNA that apparently directs the development of the testes, the male reproductive glands. The gene is being called SRY for sex-determining region...
...make it worth retelling. Shifts in Soviet leadership have historically moved from the bald to the hirsute: from the chrome-dome Lenin to the brush-cut Stalin; from Khrushchev to Brezhnev; from Andropov to Chernenko. Which brings everyone to Mikhail Gorbachev, who is nearly as bald as a darning egg, and to the upstart Boris Yeltsin, whose mane of graying locks ruffles conspicuously these days in the winds of change...
...gang members use crack, the community's best-selling drug. Kids don't need to see TV public-service ads of a man frying an egg to know what crack does to the mind. They see it all the time on the streets and in their homes. "It makes people go out of their heads," says Edgar, 15. "My friends would stop me if I ever tried it." His mouth pursed with disgust, J.J., 15, says, "It makes people skinny and ugly." In South Central the only thing worse than a "basehead" is a "strawberry," a woman addict who trades...
...empire on which the sun never sets and restored the kingdom to its position as a major international creditor and provider of capital. That's not a situation that squares with decline-and-fall scenarios. As the Financial Times notes, this newly created patrimony is "a large nest egg for when North Sea oil runs out." It -- and the freedom that made it possible -- may be Thatcherism's most enduring legacy...
...however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...