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...twelve years. Now 1,540 pages, with 22,500 quotations, it is a sockdolager, Nearly 3,000 of the quotations are new| to this edition, ranging from the maxims of Ptahhotpe, an Egyptian vizier of the 24th century B.C. ("Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned") to the gnomic counsel of Cartoonist Robert Crumb ("Keep on truckin' "). And in the array of such selections lies a whole history of Americans' changing views of the world...
...already whipsawed by inflation and recession. The IRS edict made it more costly to maintain backlists, the reserve of older and usually high-quality books that sell slowly but steadily year after year. To such houses as Knopf, Random House, Houghton Mifflin, Scribner's, and Little, Brown, backlists confer a sense of tradition and continuity whose value cannot be entirely tallied in dollars. Says Knopf Editor in Chief Robert Gottlieb: "Our intent is to keep our backlist in print as long as possible and to make those books available to, bookstores and libraries. We'd cease being Knopf...
...Salser isolated genes that help produce an enzyme resistant to methotrexate, a drug used to treat cancer. The researchers added the genes to cell cultures of mouse bone marrow. The cells that picked up the foreign material, along with cells that had been incubated with genes that do not confer resistance, were then injected into mice whose own bone marrow had been destroyed. To see if the drug-resistance genes were working, the animals were given methotrexate. Tests after two months showed that cells that carried the resistance genes made up most of the bone marrow...
...good colorful film resume is maker; a no $60,000 guarantor of budget a doesn't automatically confer nobility on a movie project; too many expert novelists have lost their way on Hollywood Boulevard. But Sayles has proved that his gift as a "legit" writer - that sharp, compassion ate eye for behavioral detail and human comedy - can transfer to the screen with out condescension or loss of nuance. "Film is a delicate medium," says one of Sayles' short-story characters (ironically, of course). Now Sayles has the chance to bring his imagination to the medium and make...
...sprightly, salty assault on practically everybody in the nation's capital, How Washington Really Works (Addison-Wesley; 146 pages; $10.95). The secret is that Washington does not really work, says Peters; it just appears to in a great game of make-believe. Claims Peters: "In Washington, bureaucrats confer, the President proclaims and the Congress legislates, but the impact on reality is negligible, if evident...