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...muscle. So Sweeney's group is perfecting a version of gene therapy, the most efficient way to dump a large amount of genetic material into a tissue as extensive as muscle (about 40% of body weight comes from muscle). He packs the IGF-1 gene into a harmless cold virus and injects the entire package directly into muscle. Once the IGF-1 gene inserts itself into the genome of the muscle cell, it begins to churn out the insulin-like growth factor that activates muscle expansion. Muscles in mice injected this way grew up to 30% larger than in normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Doctors Help The Dopers | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

Police evacuated parts of the first three floors of the Holyoke Center and cordoned off several blocks of Mount Auburn Street Monday morning after a report of a suspicious package that turned out to be harmless...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Suspicious Box Prompts Holyoke Evacuation | 7/2/2004 | See Source »

Pasquarello said that the package turned out to be harmless...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Suspicious Package Prompts Partial Evacuation of Holyoke Center | 6/25/2004 | See Source »

...parallels to the current political situation are really just too obvious even for the most obtuse, literal-minded reader to miss." Kim Jae Yong, an expert on North Korean literature at Wonkwang University in southern South Korea, speculates that Kim may be regarding such scribblings as a relatively harmless way for people to vent: "Literature is a useful safety valve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Literary Thaw in Korea | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...Signals An antivirus firm in Moscow claimed to have picked up the world's first cell-phone worm. While the "Cabir" virus is harmless, experts warned that more malicious bugs may follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Watch | 6/20/2004 | See Source »

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