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...guess we are supposed to see the development of this genre in England in terms of the birth of a veritable fire-breathing British dragon while the noble St. George and bands like Pink Floyd, the Yardbirds, and even Led Zeppelin were occupied with the last flashbacks of acid rock or otherwise engaged. Subsequently, two mutant musical offspring of thest evolved with the Godzilla-ish anti-heroics of Deep Purple, Bad Company, et. al. and the Kong-ish comparatively well mannered Queen and various courtiers. Well, personally, I don't care much more for the sugary-coated spring-bolts...
Welcome has all the earmarks of a big-budget, big studio release, and the visuals are no exception. Director of photography Dave Myers shot all the scenes in exclusively natural colors and light, and the richness and clarity of the hues are striking. For this reviewer, the acid test of a movie's cinematography and lighting effects lies in whether specific scenes linger in the memory and can be readily brought to mind as an instant association with the mere mention of the title. Welcome fills this bill of particulars admirably; look for the shot of Carradine at a piano...
...coli under control. The microbes must be able to manufacture a protective membrane; without such an outer coat they would swell and burst during normal growth. To keep them from manufacturing a complete coat, Curtiss created an E. coli with a defect in a gene that makes diaminopimelic acid (DAP), an important ingredient of the membrane. The defect made the bugs dependent for their survival upon DAP supplied by scientists...
...gene involved in DAP production. These newly designed bugs remained DAPless. But more frustration awaited Curtiss: the mutants managed to survive and multiply even without DAP. How? Dennis Pereira, a graduate student who worked with Curtiss on the project, discovered that they were producing a sticky substance called colanic acid that held them together in the absence of their normal outer coat. By manipulating still another of the microbe's genes, Curtiss and Pereira deprived the bug of its ability to make colanic acid. That change provided an unexpected dividend; it also made the already sickly microbe extremely sensitive...
...massive job of collating all the information and feeding it into a computer at the federally run Oak Ridge Energy Center, where it will be available to anyone who wants it. Already some interesting findings have turned up. For example, German scientists discovered a method of capturing the sulfuric acid released by coal when it is turned into oil; that could point to an important pollution-control technique...