Word: acted
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...clock to mend, save or just ease the pain of thousands of young men. Shortly after Tet, when physician Ronald Nadal met him, Venter was in trouble again, following an altercation with a senior officer whom Venter advised to perform, as Nadal tactfully describes it, "a biologically impossible act...
...happen. More than 30 states have passed laws prohibiting genetic tests of applicants for jobs or insurance, according to the Council for Responsible Genetics. At least 70 more genetic-discrimination bills are pending in 24 states. Twelve are before the U.S. Congress, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 forbids health insurers to deny insurance based on pre-existing genetic conditions (although raising premiums when renewing insurance is O.K. in some states). "The fears out there are just not reality," says Dean Rosen, senior vice president of policy for the Health Insurance Association of America in Washington...
...perfectly honest," Isner confesses, "no one really understands how it gets there." But unlike most other therapeutic genes, which must find their way into millions of cells to have a therapeutic effect, VEG-F needs to invade only relatively few. Its protein product, issuing from the cell, can act on untold numbers of surrounding, untreated cells. Quips Isner in a parody of the Marine Corps slogan, "All we're looking for are a few good cells...
Other flashes of sparkle were present. Backlit against Robin Wagner's magnificent Art Deco set, the choreography of the swing members made the big production number "Le Jazz Hot" smoulder. And the two-level, four-door hotel rooms of the secnd act's set did allow for a funny screwball hide-and-seek scene. But one good song does not a great musical make, nor can one humorous scene sustain an entire comedy. It all seems so meager in relation to the possibilities, which is what makes it so disappointing. The very fact that 'Victor' is supposed...
...more that they need to hear. Meanwhile, the White House legal team bears the schizophrenic burden of planning for the worst while hoping for the best. But it's clearly the Senate's show now, and after nearly morphing into a mad House this week, it had to act its age and take whatever it could agree upon. The White House and Henry Hyde are just going to have to live with that...