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...also allegedly been taking female hormone injections to stop facial hair and to keep his voice high, undergone silicone facial implants to reshape his cheek bones, chemically bleached and surgically peeled his skin to make him whiter, and had a chin cleft added...
...CORPORATION likes to keep its image up to date, and apparently cleft chins are in this year, so the big brass decided to revamp the product. Most of the work on "Michael Jackson" was actually done on computers, of course, but in order to keep the public convinced that there really is such a person as "Michael" they sent me door-to-door to pencil in the new cleft on fans' posters while they were away...
Cystic fibrosis, cleft palate, muscular dystrophy, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's chorea. The list of disorders that have been traced to a specific gene or gene region seems to grow on a weekly basis. The latest in this gene- of-the-week series: the discovery of a region on the X chromosome that is linked to manic depression, a mental disorder that affects as many as 2 million Americans. The finding, published in Nature by an American and Israeli research team, was based on studies of five families in Jerusalem. It marks the second time in three weeks that...
...cleft between undergraduates who expect to be taught and faculty for whom "promotion and tenure hang on research and publication...
...years this cleft in the hills was the cradle of China's revolution. Now its few visitors (6,000 all last year) come like pilgrims to Jerusalem to see where it began-or to remember. Their route is almost as well marked as the Stations of the Cross. Following it, one traces the explosions that overturned China...