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...packet of cabbage. At Jamin, the seductive interpretation is ravioli with langoustine on melting leaves of cabbage. Although always immaculately cooked, Robuchon's creations are occasionally a bit too bland. ! Examples are his celebrated fillet of lamb in a salt crust and the chicken poached in a pig's bladder that puffs up like a jolly balloon. Because he finds the quality of French beef and veal inconsistent, he does not serve them...
...controversy over saccharin, which is produced by Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams, began in 1977, when the Food and Drug Administration linked extremely large doses of the artificial sweetener to bladder cancer in laboratory animals. As a result, the FDA proposed that the use of saccharin be outlawed. Congress thwarted the agency's move by giving the product an exemption from a federal law that prohibits the sale of any substance found to cause cancer in animals or humans. That reprieve ran out last month...
...Foundation announced that it would no longer award the Eppinger Prize. "We founded the prize to encourage research, not to elicit political controversy," declared Dr. Herbert Falk, 60, head of the foundation and president of Dr. Falk GmbH, a firm specializing in drugs to treat disorders of the gall bladder and liver. "I will do anything to counter the impression that I am promoting a Nazi war criminal." Falk's firm decided to create a hepatology prize in the late '60s. Says Falk: "I asked professors I knew whom we should name it after, and all of them...
Weinberg has shown that only a minuscule amount of damage is needed to turn one of these normal genes into an agent of cancer. A gene from a normal human bladder cell contains about 6,000 chemical constituents or bases. The difference between this gene and one that produces bladder cancer involves only one of those 6,000 bases. Says Weinberg: "That very subtle change led to the creation of a tumor...
Competing laboratories are racing to identify the genes capable of inducing cancer in human cell cultures. About a dozen such genes have already been isolated from leukemic cells and from tumors of the lung, bladder, colon and breast. Many of these genes are nearly identical to oncogenes isolated years earlier from cancer viruses. Moreover, certain tumors (colon and lung carcinomas, for example) were found to contain the same oncogene. This suggests that perhaps several dozen genes are responsible for producing the 100 or more known forms of cancer...