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...bullet they have long been seeking. Equally tantalizing was the article published in Science by molecular biologist Alexander Kamb and his colleagues at Myriad Genetics, a Salt Lake City, Utah, biotech firm. A majority of cancer cells, they found, lack functioning copies of a gene that serves as a circuit breaker and shuts down the abnormal cell growth that causes malignancy. Already Kamb is dreaming up ways to fix this seemingly simple glitch. "The route to therapy," he says, "seems surprisingly clear...
While companies cannot always anticipate their legal exposure, they can take precautions to shield themselves from violent intrusion. As a result, they are investing more than ever in hiring guards and installing high-tech gizmos like tilt-and-zoom closed-circuit cameras or magnetic-card access systems. The current outlay is more than $22 billion each year, up 16% from 1990, according to Leading Edge Reports, a research firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. The figure is well in excess of the amount spent on the nation's police departments. By 1996 the expenditure is expected to soar another...
After the thrashing she took on editorial pages last year as a multicultural extremist and a "quota queen," it seems that Lani Guinier '71 is coming back with a vengeance. In addition to her long-held tenured professorship at Penn law school, she's been hot on the lecture circuit, she's published her first book and her ideas are now given serious consideration as potential solutions to current voting rights problems. "Call it Lani Guinier's Revenge," says The New York Times. What's more, she's been invited to speak at Harvard as this year's Class...
...financial community and thereby helping overcome disasters ranging from the crash of '87 to the near collapse of the banking industry when it was saddled in the late 1980s with bad real estate loans. Notwithstanding his bookish appearance, Greenspan has long been a fixture on the Washington cocktail circuit, where he has squired such high- profile and politically connected companions as ABC newswoman Barbara Walters and NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell...
Nixon was right on the first count -- the only criticism of Blackmun at his confirmation hearings was that the Eighth Circuit judge worked too hard -- but wrong on the second. By the time "Old No. 3," as Blackmun called himself, announced his retirement last week, he had become the court's most reliable liberal voice. "This is a guy who came to the court thinking it was the role of the court to defer to government," says Yale law professor Harold Koh. But as Blackmun read the cases, he realized not all government was good. Only when a Democrat...