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...Myriad Genetics, a Salt Lake City, Utah, biotech firm. A majority of cancer cells, they found, lack functioning copies of a gene that serves as a circuit breaker and shuts down the abnormal cell growth that causes malignancy. Already Kamb is dreaming up ways to fix this seemingly simple glitch. "The route to therapy," he says, "seems surprisingly clear...
Another potential glitch in calendar reform is the students, who might not be willing to compromise. In order to move exams to December, several things would have to change. First, the school year would need to begin at the end of August or right after Labor Day. Second, the University might stop observing some one-day holidays, such as Columbus Day. Finally, reading period would have to be somewhat shortened...
...they're thinking about finally changing the exam schedule so that Harvard works like most other normal collges. Not a bad idea--except for one glitch. That glorious winter reading period...
...audience gathers for a show that finally seems to be in good shape. Despite a four-hour session of stops and starts, camera set-ups and retakes, the crowd is enthusiastic. When Jerry doffs a baseball cap to reveal his bad haircut, the audience roars. There is one technical glitch: at the bachelor auction, Richards does a virtuoso bit of prancing buffoonery to a silent house. The set is off to the side, nearly out of audience view, and the video monitors supposed to bring it to them are not working. "I couldn't ride that wave of laughter," says...
Joel did eventually come back as if recharged by the music itself and took the audience up to new heights. The latter half of the show featured Joel at his classic best. In an amazingly heartfelt "Goodnight Saigon," Joel recaptured his previous energy. (And when, due to a technical glitch, Joel's piano failed to rise from the pit onto the stage, he simply jumped down and played from below...