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...extends to one-billionth of a gram. It is a marvel at detecting the presence of poison, easily spotting a thimbleful dissolved in ten tank cars of water. Neutron analysis can get along with specimens far smaller than those needed for conventional chemical analysis: a fragment of lint, a strand of hair, a fleck of paint will suffice. Happily, the radioactivity caused by the neutrons soon dies down, and once studied, the evidence can safely be brought into a courtroom...
...reason is that when two strands form a helix, each of the four kinds of bases in a strand must face a particular kind of base, its complement, in the opposite strand. Hybridization occurs only where strands of DNA are complementary and suggests similarity in base sequence...
...determine the extent of hybridization, the DNA strand of one strain of bacteria is made heavier by introducing heavy nitrogen. If this chain "mates" with a chain of normal weight to form a hybrid, the weight of the resulting DNA will lie midway between the normal and heavy...
...Negroes pulled an 18-ft. length of manila rope from the car and looped it in a single strand around Resnick's neck. The four took positions next to the doomed man-two on each side-and yanked the rope hard in opposite directions. The rope snapped, and Resnick fell backward to the ground. "Let me show you how to do it," he muttered. He tied the rope together in a neat knot, doubled it, and handed it to one of the young men. "Do a good job." he said, dropping to his knees...
...which had produced Battle, shot off an unprecedented letter of apology to its subscribers and closed the play. In the next four years, Williams collected the job labels that are pasted on the luggage of itinerant U.S. writers. He worked as a restaurant cashier, usher in Manhattan's Strand Theater, Teletype operator, apartment-house elevator operator, and as a poetry-reciting waiter in Greenwich Village's Beggar Bar-where he wore a black eye patch with a libidinous white eye painted on it; he had undergone the first of four eye operations. Moving on to Hollywood, he wrote...