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...switching the process off. In their normal form, both kinds of genes work as a team, enabling the body to perform such vital tasks as replacing dead cells or repairing defective ones. But mutations in the chemical makeup of these genes, whether inherited or acquired later in life, can disrupt these finely tuned checks and balances. A cell containing a faulty oncogene is often likened to a car with a stuck accelerator, a cell with a damaged tumor- suppressor gene to a car with no brakes...
...fret more about animal welfare. Lindy Weilgart, a Cornell University expert on whale acoustics, pointed out at hearings before the National Marine Fisheries Service that whales and other marine mammals rely on exquisitely sensitive hearing for hunting, navigating and socializing. Noise pollution from the experiment, she fears, could disrupt the mating and migration patterns of hundreds of thousands of animals. As Weilgart put it, "A deaf whale is a dead whale...
...accrued under apartheid. General Constand Viljoen, leader of the Afrikaner Volksfront, just beat the Friday- night deadline to register a new white separatist party called the Freedom Front. Though Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party, missed the deadline, he indicated he may not work to disrupt the balloting, as many have feared...
...work to involve the viewer--the physical, real human--rather than simply providing a static image of human interaction seen in the first work. The image is projected on a white wall at the entrance to the gallery. By opening the doors and letting in light, we momentarily disrupt the picture. Ivan Gaskell best describes the scenario in the exhibition's catalogue, "[W]e are playing our part as performers as well as viewers, admitting beams, unfocused analogues of the long-leveled rule of streaming light that forms the image. By entering we cause the very stuff of vision...
Shortly before Gillooly pleaded guilty, Harding denied his charges, insisting in a statement that "Jeff Gillooly's accusations appear to evidence a continued practice of abusive conduct intended to disrupt Tonya Harding's life and destroy her career." But Harding's word has a poor record for stacking up against the truth. On Jan. 18, she initially told investigators that Gillooly was innocent. Later in the interview, however, after an FBI agent told Harding he knew she was lying, Harding did an abrupt about-face. "I know now he is involved," she said of her ex-husband...