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...mice a gene that makes cells resistant to a specific drug. Last week a team of Yale University scientists announced they had altered an animal's hereditary makeup at a more basic level: by injecting foreign genes into a mouse at its earliest stage of development, a fertilized egg...
While the experiment offers the possibility that by changing the genetic material in the human egg, doctors may one day be able to eliminate a host of inherited diseases-including hemophilia, Tay-Sachs disease and phenylketonuria, a metabolic disorder that may result in brain damage-many basic questions must first be answered. For example, will the transplanted genes actually work as they are supposed to or will they be modified or inactivated by the animal's own genetic machinery? Will the foreign genes free-float in the cells or will they latch on to the other genes arranged along...
...strongest reaction to last week's ruling came from the father-in-law Alfred Kassab, retired vice president of a New Jersey egg retailing company. "It's ludicrous," he said. "Are we to let a triple murderer go loose just because he wasn't tried fast enough?" Kassab implied that he might have to "take justice into my own hands." Of his tenacity there can be little doubt: after initially rejecting the theory that his "all-American" son-in-law had committed the murders, Kassab soon changed his mind and financed an investigation that brought a reopening...
Hardest hit by the high temperatures and drought were American farmers, who were suffering both physically and financially. Chicken farmers and cattle ranchers in the South and Southwest had the heaviest losses. Fragile broiler chickens may begin to die when temperatures rise above 80°, and egg production of laying hens declines above 90°. Mrs. Jean Cordle of Shelby County, Tenn., gave ice water to her chickens three times a day, but 25 of her 88 hens died, and their production fell from 30 dozen a week to 12 dozen. Livestock owners are taking their animals to market early...
...hurtin' real bad in Texas," said State Agriculture Commissioner Reagan Brown. The Lone Star State so far has lost more than 1 million broilers and 50,000 breeder hens. Egg production has dropped 5%, and Brown predicted that U.S. chicken prices will go up 15% in three weeks. Cotton yields in some parts of Texas will probably be about 30% less than last year's. In South Texas, ranchers burned expensive propane gas to sear the needles off prickly pear cactus so that cattle could eat and suck water from the plants...