Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first approved gene-therapy trials, the pioneering NIH team extracted immune-system T cells from the Ohio girls, inserted normal ada genes into the cells and reinjected them. As the team had hoped, the T cells began churning out natural ADA, enabling the children's immune systems to function effectively. While that result marked the first successful treatment by gene therapy, it was not a cure; the altered T cells die out after several months, and the little patients must return to the NIH periodically to repeat the procedure...
...preceding week with brief accounts, graphics and commentaries. It instantly became one of the magazine's most popular parts. This week, in a less dramatic way, we're still in the change business, giving The Week a different look and bright new features. While maintaining its summarizing function, The Week will also absorb the exclusives, inside intelligence and trend-spotting items from the Grapevine page...
...drew a lot on my own experience on the Hill, and also did a crash course in the history and function of the Congress," he says...
Rimer explains, "We want people to realize art isn't dead, that it is part of the community in which we live...[If] you force people into seeing art, they'll enjoy it, it will speak to them and become real. Art should serve a political and cultural function for everyone--it's not just cocktail talk. Art shouldn't be aristocratic, this is a socializing and democratizing process...
...owner of a soft- (not to say bleeding-) hearted employment agency whose uncanny resemblance to The Man has led to a nice little sideline, impersonating him first at the openings of car dealerships and other lowball promotional fests, then, at the Secret Service's behest, at a real presidential function...