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Next to his liver, the Frenchman's chief preoccupation is his language. One of the main reasons why Charles de Gaulle blocked British membership in the Common Market for nearly a decade was his fear that French would lose its place as the premier language on the Continent...
...ever more deeply into the process of cell differentiation. It has long been known that the DNA in every body cell of an individual organism is identical; this DNA contains all the information necessary to construct the whole organism. Why then, in a human being, for example, is a liver cell so different from a hair cell, a heart cell so different from a skin cell? The answer, Jacob and Monod theorized in 1961, is that only a small percentage of the genes in any cell are giving instructions for the operation of that particular cell. The rest are "turned...
...four) that could digest cellulose; that mutation could be advantageous if man fails to increase his food supplies fast enough to feed the planet's growing population, but superfluous if he does. They also want man programmed to regenerate other organs, such as he now does with the liver, so that he can repair his damaged or diseased heart or lungs if necessary...
Luciana herself has her hair streaked white-blonde once a month, reserves a fast day (mashed potatoes and camomile tea) every two weeks, and takes liver injections every two months to smoothe her skin. Her personal recommendations include washing hair with jhassoul ("Ask friends going to Morocco to get a few bars"), smoking Filipino cigars instead of skin-sallowing cigarettes, constant visits to the hairdresser and gymnast, separate bedrooms ("much more conducive to sex") and homosexuals as friends ("a brief, loud hurrah for their incredible eye for line, proportion, detail and style...
...American asparagus and charge diners $3.30 per serving of seven sticks. French shoppers have learned to ask for Indian River grapefruit by name, even though the Florida product costs 35? each, twice the price of Mediterranean fruit. Among the most popular U.S. foods are innards like liver, hearts and kidneys. Europeans regard them as delicacies, particularly the cheap young American variety, and import $40 million worth a year. The French transform some of the pork liver into high-priced páté-and sell it back...