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Gilbert hoped to convince fellow scientists that introns--inactive DNA segments--made genes susceptible to a type of DNA recombination that randomly reshuffled exons, or active DNA segments. Gilbert believed that random reshuffling weakens the gene and lessens its chance for survival...
...instead of deragatory chants and random objects tossed onto the ice, Achilles Rink was scattered with players' parents and a handful of locals...
Before she caught her kids, Emily attended several meetings of Parent Alliance for Drug and Alcohol Awareness, which is linked to the New Trier school district. "I remember thinking these parents seemed so radical about marijuana," she says. Now she wonders whether random searches of lockers and mandatory drug testing ought to be introduced at school, two options Superintendent Bangser regards as unnecessary. But while she still considers the tone of PADAA too apocalyptic, she finds other parents too lackadaisical. "There's a definite head-in-the-sand attitude here," she says. "People figure our kids' SAT scores...
Military historians Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen probably wish they had waited a month or so before publishing Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage (Random House; 633 pages; $30). If they had, they could have sneaked in a page or two on the spectacular story of veteran CIA officer Harold Nicholson, who was arrested a few weeks ago for selling secrets to the Russians...
Most students admit they don't know the differences between confidential and anonymous testing, according to two random surveys done by members of AIDS Education and Outreach several years...