In collaboration with Elena Pasyukova at the Institute of Molecular Genetics, in Moscow, and Trudy Mackay of North Carolina State University at Raleigh, he has been studying a transposable element known as copia.

ECONOMIST: Truly selfish genes

However, a study by Greg Gibson, Ian Dworkin and their colleagues at North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, suggests things may be more complicated and subtle than that.

ECONOMIST: Genetics gets more complicated

This November 1995 letter to 60 firms around Raleigh came, on official stationery, from the North Carolina Department of Revenue office that conducts state tax audits.

FORBES: Tax torture, local style