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...politicians may dub it Billygate, but poor Jimmy ends up being the Billy goat...
...Horwitz and Samuel Silverstein of Manhattan's Rockefeller University have found that it belongs to a select group of bacteria that evade the body's immune system by turning it to their own advantage. Like the microbes that cause tuberculosis and leprosy, the bug is what scientists dub an intracellular pathogen. It invades white blood cells called monocytes, which normally kill bacteria, and uses material within these cells to propagate-in droves. In one experiment at Rockefeller, Legionella added to a culture of monocytes increased 100,000-fold within days...
...until very recently, simple technical problems stood in the way of decent opera films. Movie theater sound systems couldn't deliver the dynamic range of operatic performances without unbearable distortion; directors didn't know how to dub singing voices convincingly; the acting of singers showed embarassing flaws under the close scrutiny of the movie camera. Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni is remarkable not because it records a worthy performance--it's rifled with musical problems of evert sort--but because it solves the worst of the artistic problems that have kept opera off the screen. With any luck future directors...
Last January Clark embarked on a two-week tour of four countries in order to demonstrate his foreign affairs expertise, but his less-than-sure grasp of issues as well as missed planes and lost luggage led one Montreal newspaper to dub his journey "Around the World in 80 Gaffes...
...nearby Harlem. But last week Bishop Paul Moore Jr., 59, announced a change of policy: building will start again in June. "Confrontation, picketing and burning down are not the order of the day," says Moore, who is. widely known as an activist priest. His "edifice complex," as churchmen dub it, will use a very special construction crew. Workers will be hired from Harlem and trained to cut stone in the medieval fashion under tutelage of a master builder imported from Britain...