Word: defections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mental toughness of a champ. If Stallone is a man of steel, he is scarcely a man of irony, and he handles Rocky III as he has handled all of his writing and directing efforts, with heart-in-the-right-place primitivism. That is not necessarily a defect in movies that depend for effectiveness on walloping blows to the audience's emotional solar plexus. Stallone is unabashedly faithful to his character and his friends. The old gang is reassembled. Talia Shire is freshly steadfast and inspirational as Rocky's wife Adrian, Burgess Meredith is back as the wizened...
...team first constructed an artificial gene that could replace the instructions of a faulty gene subunit that was causing beta thalassemia. When frog egg cells were then injected with both the man-made instructor and the defective genetic material, the fault was corrected. The successful experiment, published in the British journal Nature, marks the first reported time an artificially constructed gene has been successfully used to correct a human genetic defect...
...inspectors believe the toxin that killed Malthay entered the container through tiny holes accidentally punched by can-forming equipment made by American Can Co. The firm is working to correct the defect. Says Eric Eckholm, executive director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute: "We must get the American public to understand that this was a problem with the can and not the product. The failure was with the mechanical process." Meanwhile, Miller has proposed a $5 million campaign to stress the safety of eating Alaska salmon...
...ways of detecting and treating a widespread birth defect...
...elusive payoff. John A. Williams, 56, has written more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction without striking a mother lode. He is a good writer with a big theme: being black in America. By now every honest citizen should know that racism is a national birth defect, which, in the absence of a cure, requires ceaseless applications of justice. This cry is implicit in Williams' work, though most readers have tired of hearing it. The result is that the author has gained a reputation as best known for being neglected...