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Try as they might to blend with the local population and to adapt the Christian message to their ways, the visitors inevitably bring Western values with them. For instance, missionaries in Asia expect newly baptized Christians to take personal blame for their actions; that is not an easy lesson for...
Drawing on materials at hand, doll-makers of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries fashioned humble toys from wood scraps, nuts, cornhusks, leather, even wishbones and wax. Wendy Lavitt has culled choice examples in American Folk Dolls (Knopf; 133 pages; $14.95 paperback) from museum and private collections, including her...
C.P. Snow, the British scientist and novelist, sounded the alarm in the 1950s about the dangers of two cultures: "Literary intellectuals at one pole, at the other scientists." Since then, microchips, satellites and nuclear power have become realities that define everyday life; yet many supposedly well-educated people do not...
Researchers are also learning just how a cancer virus can alter normal cell DNA. Some cancer viruses contain cancer-causing genes, or oncogenes. When these genes are isolated and then transferred into healthy cell cultures in the laboratory, they create malignant cells. In the past decade, more than 15 oncogenes...
Competing laboratories are racing to identify the genes capable of inducing cancer in human cell cultures. About a dozen such genes have already been isolated from leukemic cells and from tumors of the lung, bladder, colon and breast. Many of these genes are nearly identical to oncogenes isolated years earlier...