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...have not yet used my vocal cords today.") Also, like Mendel, McClintock received little attention for her efforts throughout most of her career. Her principal discovery was both complex and heretical: genes, she claimed, are not fixed on the chromosome like so many pearls on a string; they can move around in an unpredictable fashion. The trouble was that she announced this back in 1951, and as one Nobel committee member noted last week, "only about five geneticists in the world could appreciate...
...value of $1.23 billion on the estate at the time of the publisher's death. Sons Donald, 53, and Samuel I. Newhouse Jr., 55, who seem to have inherited their father's workaholic habits and zeal for expansion, have since added enterprises like Random House and a string of cable-television companies, while selling off radio and TV stations...
...just that there is more to do," he writes, "there is everything to do." Urgent notes are struck, especially in the title piece. The final strains of Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony no longer evoke a musical metaphor for death's natural release. The long string passage now stirs images of the world's end. The reason for the change is that the sage has been caught up in the nuclear arms debate: "Words like disaster and catastrophe are too frivolous for the events that would inevitably follow a war with thermonuclear weapons... The preparations...
...York police last night arrested a young con artist whose year-long trail of deception took him through a string of Harvard dormitories and who apparently secured over night visits at several Manhattan apartments by posing as a Harvard student...
That's when the back line of Hardington, sweeper Johan Ahr, and fullbacks Marty Sabelli and Matt Cameron really went to work. Sensing the increased threat on the Harvard net, they played solid team defense, denying the visitors from Hanover the opportunity to string together any sustained offensive passing...