Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday in 21 U.S. cities, and this spring will see two new movies set in Viet Nam, The Hanoi Hilton and Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. In a movie season of Trekkies, Dundees and dentist-devouring houseplants, Oliver Stone has proved that a film can still roil the blood of the American body politic. Platoon the picture is now Platoon the phenomenon...
...steaming metal shard out of a wounded G.I.'s side, it seems as much to display his expertise as to relieve the man's pain. He will do anything to achieve his objective: lead a suicide mission or send his rival on one; murder a village woman in cold blood or taunt his men toward murdering him. Chris, who feels an irresistible kinship to both men, says they were "fighting for possession of my soul." The film's most controversial question...
...they be so sure? By using the new technique of DNA fingerprinting, which involves analyzing nuclear rather than mitochondrial DNA, they had proved that while the same person had committed the murders, the man in custody was not the culprit. This month the police began using the test on blood samples from 2,000 Midlands men, hoping that if one of them is guilty, his DNA print will give him away...
...test involves comparing the DNA of blood, semen or hair roots found at the scene with the DNA of a suspect. What makes it virtually foolproof is that no two people (other than identical twins) have the same genetic characteristics. While considering this fact in 1983, Alec Jeffreys, a geneticist at the University of Leicester in England, realized it might be the basis for an important new tool in criminal investigations. Using restriction enzymes as "scissors," he cut the DNA taken from several people into segments and arranged them into patterns that somewhat resemble the bar codes found on supermarket...
Other studies echo the litany of laxity: in the past two decades the prevalence of obesity increased from 18% to 27% among children ages six to eleven and from 16% to 22% among those ages twelve to 17; 40% of youngsters ages five to eight have elevated blood-pressure or blood-cholesterol levels or do not exercise at all; any of these factors probably increases their risk of developing heart disease. Teens are cutting back on tobacco, but 18% of senior high school boys and 21% of senior girls still smoke one or more cigarettes every day. Warns Dr. Kenneth...