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...Productions, a San Francisco software designer with 26 employees that has introduced seven titles since January. IBM too has begun to focus on the kid market with such recent CD-ROM titles as The Book of Shadowboxes: A Story of the ABCs, an introduction to the alphabet. Even such blood-and-guts video-game makers as Sega and Electronic Arts are jumping into the field. Electronic Arts' new EA*Kids division has already brought out eight programs, including the best-selling Peter Pan: A Story Painting Adventure, which allows a child to color and rearrange scenes from classic children...
...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. 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...
...from the changes found in Chinese liver-cancer patients. In the latter group, aflatoxin, a fungal contaminant of food, is the carcinogen, and it alters DNA in an exquisitely precise way, substituting in a single location a T (thymine) for a G (guanine) in DNA's four-letter chemical alphabet...
...political element of this exhibit reaches full expression in many of these works, which set up the standard women-as-victim-of-male-objectification stereotype and critique it simultaneously. Mary Rhinelander's "Alphabet" challenges what it perceives to be womens' ingrained domestic and cosmetic roles with the sardonic statements "K is for Kitchen; L is for Lipstick." Lorna Simpson's screenprint of two high-healed shoes, entitled "Cure/Heal," and Debra Olin's Good Girl Measure Her Waist" also address this theme...
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