Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just 10 days earlier, the laboratory cultures had all contained the same number of microscopic cancer cells. Now even an untutored eye could tell the difference. Globs of wildly dividing cell colonies filled half the flasks, while in the others the cells refused to multiply. Reason: a research team, led by Johns Hopkins University oncologist Bert Vogelstein, had endowed the quiescent cells with a protective device that the dividing ones lacked, in this case a normal copy of a gene that acts as a circuit breaker, shutting down growth. The scientists had found a way, at least in theory...
...decade ago, scientists puzzling over cancer cells resembled 18th century Egyptologists in their struggle to decipher ancient hieroglyphics. Now they have assembled a biological Rosetta stone that has enabled them to lay out in sharp detail the changes that cause a cell to go from normal to malignant. "The cancer cell used to be a black box," says Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., physician in chief of New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "But the lid of the black box has been opened, and we can see the wheels turning inside." The "wheels" are genes that regulate...
Such is Chicago's plot. But this play is more accurately a series of vacuous show tunes set back-to-back, with only the sparsest of dialogue separating musical numbers. And while a few of the tunes are catchy ("Razzle-Dazzle" and "Cell Block Tango" are both amusing), most of the dialogue seems flat and humorless. One exchange between Roxie and her lawyer is particularly foolish. When Roxie tells Billy, "You treat me like some dumb common criminal," he replies, "You are some dumb common criminal." Couldn't book writers Ebb and Bob Fosse have done better than this...
...Chief, he watched as Ronald Reagan evoked applause on the home front by bombing Tripoli and invading Grenada. Last December Bush tried his own hand at such stuff. He busted a drug lord holed up in Panama. As a result, Manuel Noriega is now awaiting trial in a prison cell in the Miami Metropolitan Correctional Center...
...high-spirited dilapidation of the place. Chatting with hitchhikers, inspecting the nervous squalor of a love hotel, suggesting, intriguingly, that the revolution has led to "the perversion of family ethics," Timerman brings us fresh news of the island. As in his celebrated testament, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, his argument is strongest when it sticks to narrative. But after a few tantalizing glimpses, he is back in his room, reading the island through government documents. The result is scarcely more distinctive than trying to interpret the U.S. through the self-contradictions and bromides of a Ronald Reagan...