Word: berte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Medical School last week, Bert Vallee, 66, a professor of biochemical sciences, announced a major breakthrough in the study of angiogenesis. Vallee and his associates, together with scientists at the University of Washington, in Seattle, revealed that they had isolated and purified a protein that promotes angiogenesis. More important, they had cloned the protein's gene, a step that could ultimately enable scientists to produce the substance in large and pure quantities. While other angiogenic factors have been identified in the past, their genes have never been cloned...
With $20 million in its first 17 days of wide release, Mask is this year's first strong entry in the weepstakes. Its subject, Rocky Dennis, was the butt of one of God's practical jokes. This bright teenager had a preternaturally sweet disposition--and the grotesque face of Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion. Rocky's rare disease, craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, ended his life at 16, in 1978. And yet (of course) he was one of nature's noblemen, loved by puppies, blind girls and the motorcycle gang his mother Rusty hung out with. "I look weird," says Rocky (Eric Stoltz...
Because the icemen finished second in the ECAC in the regular season, advancing to the final game of the playoffs should sew up an NCAA bert...
...confirmed bachelor who looks a bit like Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion, McGowan lived in rented apartments for most of his life, but four years ago he bought a house in Georgetown and converted it into a revealing kind of private playland. Pushbuttons control all manner of gadgets: lighting panels on every floor, a laser-disk stereo system that can be turned on by infrared signals from any room. And in the back patio, a Jacuzzi whirlpool bath stands surrounded by fake boulders. McGowan admired the props in the polar bear cage at the National Zoo and ordered some...
...world is hardly in need of new alphabet books. The shelves of every children's library sag with them. But Bert Kitchen's Animal Alphabet (Dial; $11.95) should displace a score of bygone manuals. Each member of his wild kingdom is involved with the letter that begins its name: the koala hugs the main stem of the K; two bats hang from the crossbars of the B; an ostrich peers out from the great hole of the O. This is no restatement of the obvious; an elephant may push an E, but what is that long-tailed bird...