Word: blinding
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Such feats of computational biology are still a few years off or, in the worst case, maybe even a few decades away. The point is, we are just beginning to see how dramatically gene-based science can change the ways in which new drugs are discovered and developed. Blind luck will play an increasingly smaller role as scientists tease out the complex interplay between genes, proteins and the environment. There is going to be confusion--some setbacks and disappointments--at least at first. But most in the field agree that pharmaceutical research has finally entered its golden...
...Enterprise crew: Picard, full of youthful energy, begins to fall in love with the Ba'ku leader Anij. Worf (Michael Dorn) returns to puberty with enormous "gorches" (pimples), while Deanna (Marina Sirtis) and Riker (Jonathan Frakes) romp and giggle as their sex-drives increase. And Geordi (LeVar Burton), blind since birth, discovers that he can see without his electronic eyes...
...Starr did something extraordinary: he took the President's low-life behavior and called it a high crime. Clinton argued that privacy is so sacred that it included a right to lie so long as he did it very, very carefully. Starr argued that justice is so blind that once he saw a crime being committed, he had no choice but to pursue the bad guy through the Oval Office, down the hall to the private study, whatever the damage, no matter the cost. One man's loss of control inspired the other's, and we are no better...
...heavily promoted by EMI as "the tenor of our generation" (a not so subtle dig at the advanced ages of Pavarotti and Domingo), but he had a rocky Met debut three seasons ago and is looking increasingly like an also-ran. Andrea Bocelli, 40, the hugely popular blind Italian tenor, is unlikely to parlay the success of his best-selling CDs into a serious stage career; aside from the practical problems caused by his blindness, it is widely thought that his voice is too small to fill major houses...
...fill the king-size shoes of the Old Guard. Bel Canto (Sony Classical), Alvarez's first CD, is promising but not yet the work of a mature artist, while Cura can be heard in Puccini: Arias (Erato), a handsomely sung recital conducted by Domingo that reveals Cura's blind spot: his high-octane voice is oddly charmless...