Word: axels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Experts agree that Ito has set new jumping standards in the sport. Dick Button, a TV commentator and former Olympic winner, marvels at an Ito special: a triple Axel followed directly by a camel spin. Says he: "What's amazing is that she lands the jump at tremendous speed, arrests the forward motion and creates a rotation." Inevitably, others are catching up. Says Ito wistfully: "I cannot make a mistake because people not quite so good as I am can win since they have some higher artistry." It may not say so in the rule book, but smiles do have...
...major disappointment is the loss of control over the mass media. The entire eastern publishing industry has been taken over by such western giants as Burda and the Axel Springer group. One result is an outpouring of sensationalist and sometimes sleazy newspapers and magazines targeted specifically for the east. The western quality press is barely penetrating the new market. "They don't have anything to say to us," says Marion Fischer, an east Berlin translator...
...active in the nose and nowhere else in the body. What is more, the molecules they found seem to be part of an extended family of smell genes -- perhaps the largest single family in the long strand of mammalian DNA. "We have identified a few hundred genes," says Richard Axel, a professor at Columbia's Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "And there is reason to suspect there may be as many as a thousand...
...nose, therefore, may be a key to understanding how the brain works. "These molecules will serve as useful tools" for solving a variety of scientific problems, says Linda Buck, who co-authored the Cell article with Axel. This knowledge may even yield some practical benefits. Pesticide makers may be able to design improved insect repellents based on a better understanding of why certain pests are attracted to some people and not to others. And who knows, perfume manufacturers could someday offer custom-made scents that are designed to snare not just any man, but a particular, special someone...