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...first serious scientific interest was chemistry. "There was my period of explosives," he says, somewhat wistfully. "in those days you could get any chemicals you wanted. I would mix them together in various random ways. At one time I had a basement full of liquid bromine...
...computer will place as many rooming groups as possible in their first three choices, and after that, it will assign them at random...
Other authors may not be able to make that boast. Random House is suing A.E. Hotchner to recoup an $11,250 advance for a memoir that he completed but the publisher rejected as "unsatisfactory." Putnam has begun proceedings against Joseph Hayes (The Desperate Hours) to regain $33,750 for a book called Missing and Presumed Dead that Putnam refused to publish...
...crisis began with two random killings and a kidnaping. Early in the week, during a left-wing demonstration in support of amnesty for political prisoners (170 still remain in jail, although at least 400 others have been released since Franco's death), a student on the edge of the crowd was suddenly shot dead by an unidentified civilian. Most observers blamed the shooting on an extremist right-wing group calling itself the Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey (Guerrillas of Christ the King). Next day, at a hastily called rally to protest the student's murder, a young woman...
...would like to concentrate on a kind of experiment that is causing great concern and is restricted to quite special facilities: the so-called "shotgun" experiment with random fragments of DNA from animal cells. Two considerations seem pertinent. First, the probability that any fragment will contain a gene for a toxic product, or the genes of a tumor virus, is exceedingly low, though not zero. Second, evolutionary considerations provide an independent approach to the question. It seems exceedingly doubtful that our novel ability to introduce mammalian DNA into bacteria in the laboratory will create a truly novel class of organisms...