Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broadway season when eight of the eleven new plays have been comedies, three of them sex farces, and the cheapest of four new musicals cost $5 million to stage, it is heartening to see work as simple, spare and serious as Metamorphosis. One just wishes it were better. Despite an effective stage- acting debut by dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, the most ballyhooed highbrow event in the theater so far this year is all but bereft of emotional force. At the finale, two actresses stand rigid, their cheeks glazed with tears, yet much of the audience reacts only with uneasy titters. Director...
...drinking problem. She refused to blame the defeat for her troubles. "Any crisis could have led to the drinking," she said. "The campaign was a very positive experience for me. The only thing that happened wrong was that we lost." She can only hope her next campaign turns out better...
...economics is only part of the story. For many African Americans, black colleges promise a level of academic and social support that mostly white campuses cannot match. "Psychologically, a black student is going to feel better about himself at a black college," says Barry Beckham, editor of The Black Student's Guide to Colleges. At schools such as Dillard, Fisk, Morehouse and Howard, black students say they feel a surge of self-esteem directly traceable to the experience of being the majority race on campus...
...accurately predict an individual's vulnerability to such obviously genetic diseases as cystic fibrosis and could eventually develop new drugs to treat or even prevent them. The same would be true for more common disorders like heart disease and cancer, which at the very least have large genetic components. Better knowledge of the genome could speed development of gene therapy -- the actual alteration of instructions in the human genome to eliminate genetic defects...
What really turned the tide was a February 1988 report by the prestigious ; National Research Council enthusiastically endorsing a project that would first map and interpret important regions of the genome, then -- as better technology became available -- proceed to reading the entire genetic message. Most of the remaining critics were silenced last fall when the NIH chose the respected Watson as project director. Still, some scientists remain wary of the project. Says David Botstein, a vice president at Genentech and a member of the Human Genome Advisory Committee: "We need to test its progress, regulate its growth and slap...