Word: albino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other characters display unusual gifts. One woman bears a mathematical progression of children on the same date of each succeeding year (first twins, then triplets, etc.). There is a brain-damaged girl who psychically absorbs the shame that others should but do not feel until she becomes a ravening albino panther, be heading animals and humans alike. These surreal people do not simply stand for such concepts as overpopulation or guilt; they also take their places in what the au thor calls "the infinitely rich and cryptic texture of human life...
...royal family. When medical researchers try to unravel the secrets of the cell, essential to understanding cancer, they must be absolutely certain of the genetic "purity" of their test subjects. Thus the biological community was rocked last week by the news that a strain of albino lab mice used by cancer investigators everywhere was genetically contaminated. The tainted mice were discovered by University of Wisconsin Biologist Brenda Kahan and her colleagues while they were growing a primitive type of tumor called a teratocarcinoma. A puzzling enzyme uncharacteristic of the breed kept showing up hi the host animals, a common strain...