Smart, destructive genes in your genetic profile will soon be repaired with just-for-you designer drugs. Scientists are right now cracking the code.

Yes and No
Notes on the Magazine's new look.

Letters
Hitting the correct stride, Gilbert & Sullivan redux, Co-op quiche, Memorial Arch controversy questioned

Around Tappan Square
Working with student writers, the good in Oberlin Football, Alumni Association honors volunteers

In Class
The cassette tapes are still around, but learning a language has gone high-tech 

At Issue

Oberlin vs. Michigan football, whose records are right?

Q & A
The Candyman

Profile
The Business of Art

Money, Motherhood, and Really Bad Seascapes

Staff Box

 

 

Logos

Winter '99 Volume 95 No. 3

 

F E A T U R E S

 

COVER STORY:

Our DNA is an extraordinary partner, and understanding our genetic heritage has value far beyond the laboratory.

BY PETER GWYNNE
ILLUSTRATIONS BY CURTIS PARKER

 

Crime and Publishing

They haven't quit their day jobs, but these three authors are pursuing their longtime dreams of murder and mayhem. EDITED BY MARCIA TALLEY '65

Boston Heart Surgeon Billy Cohn '82 is making national headlines for his remarkable invention--a device that allows bypass surgery on a beating heart.
BY STEFANIE DOEBLER


Making Joyful Noise

Singer Francois Clemmons '67 is fiercely devoted to preserving the African spiritual in the repertoire of serious American music. BY KIRK WARREN

The Plus Factor

Can a student's race figure into the college admissions process? For now, yes. But as admissions procedures face more court challenges, that legal line is in danger of shrinking. BY BEN GOSE