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Anyone who looks at him twice gets invited to eat BBQ and hear the singer Crystal Gayle perform at Alexander's tent at the straw poll.
Reviews of his four-hour Hamlet , with its unlikely cast (Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Charlton Heston), don't resolve the question.
The single crystal X-ray structure [ 14 ] and the 2-D NMR (CDCl 3 ) [ 6d ] of Taxotere likewise demonstrate hydrophobic association, in this case between the tert -butyl and the C2 phenyl group.
Most recently, the crystal structure of the polymerase in complex with a DNA promoter has revealed the structural basis for this specificity [ 1 2 ] . In addition, a number of researchers have examined the contribution of various nucleotides and functional groups in the promoter and various amino acids in the polymerase to specificity [ 3 4 5 ] . Based upon both structural and mutagenic analyses, it has proven possible to identify polymerase variants with altered specificities for promoters [ 6 7 ] . Polymerase variants with altered specificities have also been identified using genetic selections [ 8 ] . However, the variant polymerases and variant promoters that have so far been identified are close in sequence to the wild-type.
As well as exploring the occult — he spoke to his departed mother through a crystal ball — Canada’s longest-serving Prime Minister liked to collect “ruins” on his many world travels.