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Although nearly every cell in the body contains a full complement of genes, only a small fraction of those genes are active in any one cell. A cell on the tongue, for instance, may express genes encoding proteins required for taste sensation, while an immune cell battling infection churns out proteins lethal to bugs...
...Kennedy remains pretty much intact. He was a shrewdly concealed man who said, "Never write anything down that you wouldn't want published on the front page of the New York Times." His notes to his children are loving, stern, minutely involved. His messages to his wife Rose express tenderness and devotion. To judge by these papers, one might think the Hollywood mogul's longtime relationship with the actress Gloria Swanson was strictly business. And of his other free-lance sexual buccaneering, there is not a trace. Old Joe is the one who taught his son Jack how to keep...
...scientists await the clone's birth, other wildlife researchers express doubts about the project's conservation claims and think the wrong message is being sent. "We do not believe that cloning has any relevance to the routine management and conservation of endangered species," says David Wildt, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Va. Instead, Wildt favors low-tech methods, like the artificial insemination used to breed the endangered black-footed ferret, which is now being reintroduced to the American West. "Our laboratory works all over the world with the rarest...
...well trained until I slipped up a week before I saw him for the last time. By that time he was bed-bound and having trouble breathing, so his vitriol didn't have its normal force. What was worse, his anger, or his anger at not being able to express his anger...
...limits to developers. Environmental lobbyists, already pleased with Clinton's record of land protection, are thrilled by his latest move. "This is a great moment in history," Ken Rait, director of the Heritage Forest Campaign, told the New York Times. "It's something for which our children will express gratitude...