Holiday Message

Holiday musings.

A M d his Editor’s Page is being written during the Christmas reak, a traditional period of family reunions, relaxation, ecreation, and reflection. It is often a time when people tep back and try to put the daily activities in which their ives are immersed into a broader perspective. In that spirit, thought I would share with you some of my musings uring this time. The first issue that occurred...

Women's Holiday Fund

Sir,?May we once more through the columns of your paper call attention to the valuable work that is being done by the Women's Holiday Fund on behalf of those whose lives are passed in dismal surroundings and weighed down by heavy responsibilities and anxieties ? It is not sufficiently realized how great are the demands made upon the strength and courage of the working woman, and that she is wor...

Constructions on Holiday

Constructions on holiday

Constructions at Work provides many new empirical observations and sound criticisms of other work. These fail, however, to support Goldberg’s two main arguments. They do not undermine the need for innate linguistic structure; nor do they decide for Construction Grammar in particular.

Death takes a holiday

control may kick in even before a kinetochore is assembled. The mitotic checkpoint— controlled by Mad1, Mad2, Bub1, BubR1, and Bub3— delays anaphase by inhibiting APC until all kinetochores are properly attached to the spindle. Because inhibition of Mad2 leads to an accelerated mitosis and a precocious anaphase, it has been assumed that the checkpoint itself also regulates mitotic timing. But M...