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...third approach, called chemical mismatch cleavage, is as accurate as the resolvase method but is not widely used because it requires chemicals which are either explosive or mutagenic...
Vamps & Tramps is an apt title, and not just because, as the author writes, it ``evokes the missing sexual personae of contemporary feminism''-- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject, and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in ``the feminist establishment,'' and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon rights. Is she fair? Nah--fair...
...remarkable cross-pollination of astrophysics and medicine, Harvard physicists studying the origin of the universe are applying recently developed techniques to a promising new method of medical diagnosis...
Xenon, an inert gas already used in hospitalsas an anesthetic, can be pre-magnetized with alaser using Walsworth's method and inhaled by thepatient. The xenon then diffuses throughout thebody almost instantly, allowing a properly tunedMRI to detect the image...
Engineers and local politicians are arguing whether the joints should merely be restored to their prequake state or upgraded, whether such upgrading is even possible and, if it is, what is the best method. Similar debate swirls around how to revise building codes to do better in new construction and, even more important, how to retrofit older buildings--and who will pay the bill. Says Iwan of Caltech: ``The really difficult issue is what to do with the existing stock of less-safe, potentially hazardous structures. They're already built and paid for, there is probably a different owner...