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...heart drug hit the market in 1987 in a blinding flash of pitchmen, promotion and public relations hoo-ha. The product of biotech breakthroughs, TPA was touted as clearly superior to the competition, a clot-busting drug called streptokinase, on the market for 15 years. Though TPA (for tissue plasminogen activator) is 10 times as expensive as the older drug, the majority of U.S. doctors bought the pitch, and the new drug became the favored method of breaking up clots in heart-attack victims. Then last week an international team of researchers reported what some doctors had suspected all along...
...TAKE AWAY the expensive flash and pizzaz and what's left is a collection of some of the most horrible, groaning puns you've ever laughed yourself sick over...
Among these several pieces are a group of photographs which document protests scenes. These pictures more than anything else in the exhibit put the artwork within the political realm. As these pictures flash between sculptures and prints we are reminded that this is an exhibit of lesbian art, highlighting a particular marginalized group's means of expression...
...signals is set into motion. First, the satellite sends its data simultaneously to an Air Force ground station in Woomera, Australia, and to the U.S. Space Command's Missile Warning Center near Colorado Springs. Computers in Colorado instantly sort through the information, identify individual missiles, project target areas and flash the results by satellite back to the gulf. All this happens in time for air-raid sirens to sound four to five minutes before the missiles complete their seven-minute journey. A new, more direct route may increase the odds of intercepting the Scuds. According to this week's issue...
Michael R. Kelsen '90 needed no such second-hand report. From his hotel balcony in Tel Aviv, he could see the flash of light and feel the tremors in the ground that signalled the beginning of the renewed attack...