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...implications of his breakthrough arealmost infinite. To have "one God that counts" instead of a constellation of gods who require occasional ritual appeasement, as Cahill notes in The Gifts of the Jews, means that Abraham's relationship to God "became the matrix of his life," as it would be for millions who followed. A universal God made it easier to imagine a universal code of ethics. Positing a deity intimately involved in the fate of one's children overturned the prevalent image of time as an ever cycling wheel, effectively inventing the idea of a future. Says Eugene Fisher, director...
...SERGEI BODROV JR., 30, actor and director seen by many as the most promising figure in Russia's struggling film industry; after an avalanche swept through the site in the Caucasus where he was filming; in North Ossetia, Russia. The son of a well-known director, Bodrov had his breakthrough in the 1996 Prisoner of the Caucasus. Officials say they have little hope of finding more survivors of the massive avalanche, which killed as many as 150 people, including 49 from Bodrov's cast and crew...
...secretary-general of the union, reciprocated. At one meeting, Zahner asked about the red bandannas worn by all labor activists in Korea. Knowing Zahner's interest in the bandannas, Kang brought an extra one, and presented it to him as a gift. Zahner saw that moment as a breakthrough in the talks. He says the bandanna will be "a treasure that I'll keep the whole time I'm in the industry." It took six months, but in late April, the union consented to changing the agreement?the no-layoff clause was dropped and the acquisition moved forward. Lee Beom...
With the notable exception of insulin, which helps the body process sugars from carbohydrates, the identity of most of the major players in this biochemical balancing act could for years only be guessed at. The first big breakthrough occurred in 1995, when the Rockefeller's Friedman stunned the scientific world by announcing that he and his colleagues had discovered a hormone produced by fat cells that actually caused fat to melt away, at least in laboratory mice. Genetically engineered mice that lacked the gene for making this hormone developed ravenous appetites and became grossly obese. When these same mice were...
Barry's new book, One Hundred Demons (Sasquatch; 224 pages), may be her breakthrough, but she's been perfecting her distinctive take on the funny pages since she was a kid in Seattle. "I started selling my drawings pretty early on," she says. "They were a weird amalgam of Playboy and Betty and Veronica. I used to sell those for a nickel." At Evergreen State College, which she describes as a small "hippie" school in Washington State that she attended in the 1970s, she drew comics for the school newspaper. "I was studying fine arts," she remembers, "and I went...