Word: celling
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...ancient hilltop monastery in Macedonia, a young monk named Kiril (Gregoire Colin of Olivier, Olivier) finds a frightened girl (Labina Mitevska) hiding in his cell. She is, we learn, the victim of ethnic hatred, and once her enemies track her down, the peace of this retreat is violently, permanently shattered...
...damage to a critical gene that helps protect the body from cancer, according to a study in today's New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are speculating that the carcinogens in tobacco smoke attach themselves to the p53 gene's genetic material and disable the cell, causing mutations. TIME medicine writer Christine Gorman said, "This is the smoking gun. All of the evidence is overwhelming. . . Unless you are a tobacco executive there is no doubt that smoking causes cancer...
...warden said, "Come out with your hands up in the air. "If you don't stop this riot, you all gonna get the chair." Scarface Jones said, "It's too late to quit. "Pass the dynamite, 'cause the fuse is lit." There's a riot goin' on ... in cell block...
Those were fighting words in 1954. Riot in Cell Block #9, performed by the Los Angeles quartet the Robins, is vintage rhythm and blues by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the songwriting team who, as much as anybody, invented rock 'n' roll. To imagine '50s pop music without their propulsive tunes-Hound Dog, Kansas City, Jailhouse Rock, Searchin', Love Potion #9, There Goes My Baby, Love Me, Yakety Yak-is pretty much to imagine the '40s. As writer-producers, impresarios on call to Elvis Presley, the Coasters, the Drifters and many more, Leiber and Stoller were the prime concocters...
...forces tortured, imprisoned and guillotined Algerian guerrillas. Today it is where the government holds 1,000 of as many as 30,000 Islamists reportedly jailed around the country. One former inmate told TIME he had been held for six weeks of solitary confinement in a dark, rat-infested underground cell, tormented by two prison guards...