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These days, Chang is reluctant to mention his ice-skating past, a sport he began at age 5 but put aside after the 1992 World Championships to become a full-time student. The alarm clock set to 4 a.m., the practice rink reserved from 5 to 9:30 every morning, the late days at school to make up for lost time--they are in the past now. In fact, when Chang first arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1989, he didn't expect competitive skating to play any role at all in his college career. But the transition...
...Somebody down there had their alarm clock setso it went off every night at midnight," saysAlfredo R. Gutierrez '97. Gutierrez says he madeseveral phone calls to administrators before theproblem was corrected...
...hours and portrays nothing less than the end of the world as we know it. King's horrors, as usual, are firmly rooted in the everyday. The opening scene sets the tone. At a government lab nestled in a quiet California desert community, a security guard gets a panicked alarm: the containment of a deadly experimental virus has been breached. Instead of triggering the security system, the guard races across the manicured lawns, grabs his wife and baby and bolts off in a car before the area can be quarantined...
...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. When a protein finds an error in one of the words spelled out by DNA's four-letter chemical alphabet, it flashes an alarm. A person born with only one good copy of any of these genes is fine, until some cell in his or her colon loses or mutates its backup copy. Without a spelling checker, mutation piles upon mutation, telescoping the time it takes for cancer to develop...
...more closely. But a big impetus for action is the increasing number of claims filed against companies for failure to protect workers. The family of a sales clerk murdered by an employee at a Gap store in New York City two years ago is suing a security firm, an alarm company, an armored-car service and two contractors that the Gap employed. They are seeking $100 million in damages...