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Unfortunately, the new digital standard is completely incompatible with old TV sets, which were designed for (you guessed it) analog signals. Being the first on the block to have a digital set will carry a high price tag: when they are introduced in Christmas 1998, digital TVs are expected to cost between...
Folkman's research centers around using proteins to block the growth of the blood vessels which feed cancerous tumors. Injections of two such proteins--angiostatin and endostatin--into mice with cancerous tumors eventually hampered the growth of the tumors. The proteins caused the tumors to shrink, and eventually, to stop growing back...
Twenty-somethings have a hard time buying the stories our parents tell us about the advent of television in the 1950s and '60s. I mean, who can imagine a world in which a family who owned a color set was the envy of the block...
...legitimate stages into burlesque houses and movie theaters. Even in Giuliani's youth questionable entertainments were a staple (the future mayor could have paid to see a man eat live mice at Hubert's Museum and Flea Circus). The postwar exodus of the city's middle class continued the block's slow skid into porndom...
...referring to the theater, but he could just as easily be talking about the block as a whole--which begs the question of whose memories you take as your signpost. Rudolph Giuliani's? Those of the kids who used to watch kung-fu movies in the old New Amsterdam? John Barrymore's? With the mix of live and canned entertainment, shopping, restaurants and tourist attractions, and with the hoped-for blend of high, middle and low brow, 42nd Street's caretakers are aiming to re-create the traditional ambiance and uses of 42nd Street in a late-'90s context. Since...