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Also check out the new Hirschhorn Museum of Modern Art, and the gardens of Dunbarton Oaks in Georgetown--the estate is owned by Harvard. It's also very pretty in the Springtime...
...Mount Sinai School of Medicine doctors who reported the case, Lillian Y. Hsu, Lotte Strauss and Kurt Hirschhorn, found that the infant's cells contained an abnormal chromosome that was made up of two joined chromosomes. This extra chromosomal material had garbled the genetic message. Similar abnormalities are occasionally transmitted to a child from a parent who has no history of possible genetic damage from radiation or other causes. In those rare cases, the parent's body cells contain the defective chromosome; it is an inherited abnormality. But no such chromosome was found in the body cells...
...terms of institutional oneupmanship, the work gives the Smithsonian the distinction of placing the first abstract sculpture on the capital's Mall, which will eventually be blooming with them: Hostess Gwen Cafritz is donating an Alexander Calder stabile-mobile that will be installed in midsummer, while the Hirschhorn Collection is planning to install a whole garden full of modern works from Rodin to George Rickey...
...type known as lymphocytes, which are loaded with antibody ammunition to battle any invader. They attack a transplant much as they would fight an army of diseasecausing virus particles. But transplant patients' lymphocytes show more hostility to cells from some donors than from others. Dr. Kurt Hirschhorn and Dr. Fritz Bach of New York University School of Medicine noted that when lymphocytes from two people of widely different ethnic groups were put together in a test tube, the cells became overactive; they enlarged and multiplied. By contrast, when lymphocytes from identical twins were combined, there was no reaction...
...Architectural Sciences; Charles M. McEwen, Jr., Arlington, Germanic Languages and Literature; Alexander Welsh, Brookline, English; John G. Benedict, Cambridge, English; Robert A. G. Monks, Cohasset, History; William M. Calder, Concord, Latin; Herbert B. Olfson, Dorchester, Economics; Daniel J. Collins, Jr., Haverhill, Chemistry; John F. Wilson, Hopkinton, Government; Richard C. Hirschhorn, Longmeadow, Biology; Jaroslaw Bilinskij, Milton, Government; Robert D. Papkin, New Bedford, Government; Martin A. Goldman, Newton, Economics; Stephen J. Healey, III, Newton, Biology; Jordan Joseph, Roxbury, Biochemical Sciences; Kent W. Frederickson, Saugus, English; Lyman E. Sproul, Jr., Saugus, Biology; John T. Bethell, South Essex, English; Jonathan Ketchum, South Natick, Music...