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...seekers who flock to big cities. Imagine in the same way Jakarta or Shanghai. Beyond that, Singapore began its life as a British colony designed to serve as a shipping, administrative and financial center. Today it is a highly skilled society without the urban sprawl and rural poverty that afflict larger nations. An analogue might be Manhattan incorporated as a republic between the Battery and 96th Street, with its own flag, armed forces and immigration controls...
...developing cancer than others, and at an earlier age. For them, heredity plays a major role. Over the past five months, competing teams at Johns Hopkins and Boston's Dana- Farber Cancer Institute have identified four new genes associated with a form of early onset colon cancer known to afflict particular families. These genes are carried by as many as 1 in every 200 Americans, making them the most common cause of cancer susceptibility yet discovered. In their normal form, these biological versions of computerized spelling checkers produce proteins that scoot along strands of replicating DNA, searching for tiny typos...
...investigation will also re-examine the conclusion that Foster's death last year was a suicide. He asked the court to keep the reports secret until his probe is completed. But if last week is any indication, the steady drip, drip, drip of Whitewater disclosures is likely to afflict the Clintons for months to come...
...tricky part about having your dreams come true is making them mean what they were supposed to mean when you dreamed them in the first place. Like many others from the class of '68, I am still working on the original stuff: bearing witness, struggling to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable; trying to find enough to laugh about so that the horror doesn't kill off the hope. I still believe, against all evidence, that things can change for the better. We're working...
...that marked the anniversary of last year's L.A. riots, leaders of student groups spoke last night to address the racial prejudices and the economic problems that afflict all Americans...