Word: celling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake up in a cold, dank cell, tied to a chair. A hot light is shining in my face, blinding me, scoring me. "He's awake," someone snickers, "Who's got the cattle prod...
DANCE ABILITY MANY believe, is the only virtue of British synth-band Depeche Mode. An auspicious pioneer in the synth-pop wavelet of Human League, ex-Human Leaguers Heaven 17, and Soft Cell, "The Mode" looked passe after synthesizer genius Vince Clarke departed for Yaz. The remaining foursome haven't quite thrived, but they haven't died either; and their latest release. Some Great Reward compares well to the brilliant post-Clarke collection. A Broken Frame...
...double-helix DNA molecule, which is encased in the center of every living cell, is shaped like a spiral staircase. Each step in the staircase is composed of a compatible pair of four different nucleotides, rep- resented by the letters A, T, G and C. Grouped into sets of three steps, the nucleotides are called codons, which dictate, or code for, the 20 amino acids, the subunits of protein. A few codons, or code words, serve as punctuation marks, telling the cellular machinery to start or stop adding amino acids to the growing protein chain...
...Watson discovered the structure of DNA. Crick proposed that the genetic code was essentially an accident of nature, which, once fixed a few billion years ago, would never change. Explains Preer: "It's hard to imagine how one code could evolve into another without jeopardizing the protein in the cell." Whatever the mechanism, the changes must have occurred very early on; some biologists suggest that the alterations may have been a ploy by one-celled creatures to resist viruses, which destroy cells by invading them and taking over their cellular machinery...
There can be no longer journey than the one Elie Wiesel, 56, has taken from a cell in Auschwitz to the corridors of Washington. "How can you measure it?" he asks. "In the suffering of a people? In the recesses of history?" The questions are rhetorical. No gauge exists; no one has ever made the trip before. The voyage is charted in three words inscribed on his medal: AUTHOR, TEACHER, WITNESS...