How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Into the Mythical G-Men

The display case outside J. Edgar Hoover’s office was not necessarily what President Roosevelt had in mind when he called upon law enforcement to "interpret" the problem of crime. But it was a start, a hint that Hoover was taking notice of the public interest in crime narratives and adjusting his self-presentation accordingly. Another clue came when Hoover began to push for a new name to replace the "Division of Investigation." Since the end of Prohibition, he had longed to break away from wh...

GT-AG rule (thing) by BioTech - Everything2.com

GT-AG rule (thing) See all of GT-AG rule, no other writeups in this node. by BioTech (11.8 y) CC Rep: 5 ( +7 / -2 ) (Rep Graph) (-) Fri Aug 09 2002 at 12:03:13 This is the observation that all introns in DNA begin with the nucleotides of "GT" (guanine, thymine) and end with the nucleotides "AG" (adenine, guanine). When the DNA is transcribed into RNA, the introns are removed from the RNA by a mechanism which recognizes these beginning and ending nucleotides - in the RNA they wo...

J G Ballard

Home > J G Ballard Sign in / Sign up   Search for  Author     New Authors New Books Coming Soon Most Popular Top Authors 17 followers Follow this author J G Ballard(James Graham Ballard) (1930 - 2009)J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, China where his father was a businessman. After the attack on Pearl Harbour, Ballard and his family were placed in a civilian prison camp. They returned to England in 1946. After two years at Cambridge, where he r...