Word: hedgehog
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HATS OFF! It's only a first step, but scientists may be a hair closer to a cure for baldness. Using injections of a gene--nicknamed the Sonic hedgehog--they have been able to awaken hair follicles from a resting state and force them into an active one. Alas, that's just in mice. Whether the therapy works on human pates remains to be seen. One potential problem: the Sonic hedgehog gene is linked to basal-cell carcinoma, a common, treatable skin cancer...
Good thing I did. Dreamcast can be, well, a dream: in graphics, sound and especially speed, it's a quantum leap ahead of the 64-bit consoles. If anything, it may be a little too brisk. Take Sonic Adventure, a revamped version of that Sega classic Sonic the Hedgehog, which the company is marketing as the quintessential Dreamcast game. The visuals are 3-Delicious--Sonic's footprints appear in the sand as he zooms by, while the sun glints in the lens just as it should. But dismal attempts at midair loop-the-loops left me cursing at controls that...
Over the course of his 34-year career, Conyers has distinguished himself mostly as a truculent ideologue. Among his causes have been a guaranteed annual income for the poor and reparations for descendants of slaves. "A fox knows many, many things, while a hedgehog knows only one larger truth," says a House Democrat, paraphrasing the ancient Greek poet Archilochus. "John Conyers has been a hedgehog...
...awesome erudition; in Oxford, England. The son of a Jewish timber merchant, Berlin became one of Oxford University's most eminent thinkers. His essays still dazzle, whether ruminating on determinism in Historical Inevitability, updating Mill in Two Concepts of Liberty or exploring Tolstoy's conflicted nature in The Hedgehog and the Fox. (See eulogy, below...
...than in person. Although the Oxford philosopher was casual about his writings--he never attempted a major book--his lectures and scholarly papers, including Russian Thinkers and Against the Current, established Berlin's reputation as a formidably learned defender of liberal values. His most famous and influential essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), divided humankind into those who have one big idea and those who have many smaller ones. Berlin's hedgehogs included Plato and Dante; among the foxes he named Aristotle and Shakespeare. Although too modest to make such a claim for himself, Sir Isaiah...