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Sager
U.S. geneticist. Born in Chicago, she received her PhD from Columbia and later taught at Hunter College and Harvard Univ. Questioning the traditional belief that chromosomal genes are the only apparatus for transmitting genetic information to a cell, she discovered (1953) in the alga Chlamydomonas the existence of a second genetic-transmitting system, a gene not located on the alga's chromosomes that controls the cell's sensitivity to the antibiotic streptomycin, and observed that both male and female Chlamydomonas can transmit the nonchromosomal gene.
Alger
U.S. writer. Born in Chelsea, Mass., the son of a Unitarian minister, he graduated from Harvard with honors, then earned a degree from its divinity school. Forced to leave his pulpit after two years because of allegations of improper activities with youths, he took up writing. Beginning with Ragged Dick (1868), he wrote over 100 books that were almost alike in preaching that through honesty, cheerful perseverance, and hard work, a poor but virtuous lad would have his just reward (though it was almost always precipitated by good luck). His books sold more than 20 million copies, despite consistently weak plots and dialogue, and Alger was one of the most popular and socially influential writers of the late 19th cent.
Algeria
Nation, N Africa. Area: 918,497 sq mi (2,378,907 sq km). Population (1997 est.): 29,476,000. Capital: Algiers. Most of the population is Arabic; Berbers are the main minority group. Languages: Arabic (official), French, Berber. Religion: Islam (official). Currency: Algerian dinar. Algeria has the second-largest land area (after Sudan) on the continent. The coastline has few inlets and the rivers are small. It is traversed in the north by the Atlas and Saharan Atlas Mtns.; its highest peak is Djebel Ch\u00e9 lia, at 7,648 ft (2,331 m). Central and S Algeria occupy much of the N Sahara Desert. Algeria has a centrally planned developing economy based primarily on the production and export of oil and natural gas. Since achieving independence, the country has nationalized much of its economy. It is a republic with two legislative bodies; its chief of state is the president, and its head of government is the prime minister. Phoenician traders settled there early in the 1st millennium BC; several centuries later the Romans invaded, and by AD 40 they had control of the Mediterranean coast. The fall of Rome in the 5th cent. led to invasion by the Vandals, and later by Byzantium. The Islamic invasion began in the 7th cent; by 711 all of N Africa was under the control of the Umayyad caliphate. Several Islamic Berber empires followed, most prominently the Almoravid (c.1054-1130), which extended its domain to Spain, and the Almohad (c.1130-1269). The Barbary Coast pirates, operating in the area, had menaced Mediterranean trade for centuries, and France seized this pretext to enter Algeria in 1830. By 1847 France had ...
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