Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creating a specific protein. If a single gene is responsible for producing cancer, it must be a result of the protein that the gene creates. Researchers are just beginning to figure out what kinds of proteins oncogenes make. Once they do, scientists may be able to develop tests to detect tiny traces of these proteins; such tests could allow the diagnosis of cancer at a far earlier stage than is now possible. Identifying the proteins made by cancer genes will enable biologists to create antibodies that specifically attack cancer cells and, perhaps, to block the creation of those proteins, thus...
Another film about a pair of lovable oldies in the twilight of their days, starring two Hollywood legends who had never worked together before. Detect a trend here? From the same sentiments that poured forth On Golden Pond (box office to date: $118 million) comes another tear-duct wringer, called Right of Way, with Bette Davis, 74, and Jimmy Stewart, 74. In the made-for-cable TV movie, due out next year, Davis is stricken by a terminal illness, and Stewart, not wishing to continue alone, decides to end his life too. The match-up of the two stars seems...
...Barney Frank, a Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts. "You sit there, somebody hands you a check for $3,000, and you say 'Thank you.' " In the end, it is pressure from the voters that may limit the power of the PACs. Some lawmakers, like Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt, detect rumblings of reform. Says he: "There is a growing sense that the system is getting out of hand." - By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Evan Thomas/Washington, with other bureaus
...subject as technical and globally dangerous as nuclear war, it borders on demagoguery to offer, in referendum form, one simple solution to the problem. To argue, as one supporter did, that a freeze "is easily verifiable, because you can always detect zero," reflects an ignorance or a confidence inappropriate for the matter. Such arguments take advantage of gut-level fears and channel them towards superficially appealing solutions...
...gunmen agreed to a 48-hour extension of their deadline and to the release of five more hostages. Some 30 hours after the initial occupation, the gunmen discovered a Polish military attaché, Zygmunt Dobruszewski, hiding in an embassy annex. Wysocki and his friends also failed entirely to detect the presence of Polish Attaché Jozef Matusiak, who was concealed in an attic. Eventually, Matusiak managed to crawl through a window onto the shingled embassy roof, and Swiss commandos standing by with ladders hauled him to safety...