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...pivotal discovery came in 1976, when Drs. J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus at the University of California, San Francisco, made a startling observation. They saw that a viral gene known to cause cancer in chickens was practically a carbon copy of a normal gene found in animal and human cells. The virus had somehow stolen a perfectly good gene and put it to bad use. This finding helped lead to a general conclusion: cells become cancerous because their normal genetic machinery goes awry. The culprits that initiate the damage can be viruses, radiation, environmental poisons, defective genes inherited from...
...time "Old No. 3," as Blackmun called himself, announced his retirement last week, he had become the court's most reliable liberal voice. "This is a guy who came to the court thinking it was the role of the court to defer to government," says Yale law professor Harold Koh. But as Blackmun read the cases, he realized not all government was good. Only when a Democrat was in the White House did he feel it was safe to retire...
...CLIENT: Harold Ickes, White House deputy chief of staff...
...though he had complete confidence in Stephanopoulos, he was asking newly appointed White House counsel Lloyd Cutler to launch a detailed review of the whole affair. The chief of staff put out a formal statement to the daily press asserting that Stephanopoulos and White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes "have no recollection of asking anyone" to fire Stephens and pointing out that Stephens "is continuing to conduct his inquiry for the RTC." But, the Associated Press reported Saturday, top RTC officials were informed about the White House calls and briefly considered removing the lawyer...
BEST PERFORMANCE IN ARMANI AND A HEADSET. How did the agents do? Of the seven winners in the acting, writing and directing categories, CAA represents three (Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Jane Campion), ICM two (Holly Hunter and Tommy Lee Jones), and the little-known Harold Greene Agency one (Schindler's List screenwriter Steven Zaillian). Eleven-year-old Anna Paquin is represented by the even-less-known Double Happy agency of New Zealand. The William Morris Agency was shut...