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...cancer are associated with certain visible changes in the 23 pairs of chromosomes found in human cells. Recent studies suggest, for example, that in some lung cancers a piece is often missing from chromosome No. 3. Better-documented changes occur in certain leukemias and lymphomas. In one form of chronic leukemia, a piece of chromosome 22 changes place with a piece of chromosome 9. In most patients with a cancer known as Burkitt's lymphoma, a piece of chromosome 8 has changed places with a piece...
Limping from a fall four years ago and suffering from a chronic back ailment, Karajan looks far frailer than he did on his previous U.S. appearance: a small, fragile man with a shock of swept-back white hair who pulls himself up to the podium with difficulty. But his command of the orchestra has never been surer, nor his conducting so infused with the wisdom that comes with age. After a century of excellence, the Berlin Philharmonic shows no signs of advancing years, only greater maturity. -By Michael Walsh
...writers were being encouraged, often paid substantial wages, to do everything but write. Updike lived through and withstood such pressures on his private labors. He withstood, too, the more chronic depredations on an American writer's productivity: drink, the extremes of isolation or cliquishness, and, above all, early burnout. All too often, as Updike once noted in a speech at an Australian arts festival, a writer uses up his youthful material and finds himself, though empty, still posed in his role. "It is then that he dies as a writer and becomes an intercultural object merely," said Updike...
...years as a prison chaplain, I have encountered a number of Sy Johnsons who feel they are chronic victims, abused and misused. One of the alienating choices the Sy Johnsons repeatedly make is to sustain themselves with anger, bitterness and inner turmoil. In their distorted view, these intense and destructive emotions are the glue that holds their fragmented lives together. Such individuals are totally threatened, even panicked, at the suggestion of giving up their anger...
Saying that "in retrospect, the work shouldn't have been done" because of the need for more planning. Bossert is fearful that the College may take on a greater number of Houses next summer, causing more chronic headaches that will similarly linger into the school year...