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...group is currently studying two inherited diseases in humans, lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI) and cystinuria. Both diseases affect the ability of cells to import certain amino acids. Researchers believe that LPI, which creates a toxicity for proteins containing a certain amino acid, lysine, may be caused by a mutation in the protein under study...
Saturn. Aerodynamic but not particularly sexy, this compact from GM's all new division in Tennessee is slowly building a following among the import set. The best thing about Saturn is that the company is committed to buyer satisfaction. When it was discovered that an improper coolant was used in some of the cars earlier this year, all the 1,100 Saturn owners affected were notified. Every one got a car or a refund...
...Administration is negotiating with Mexico and carped about foreign aid. While insisting that he is neither an isolationist nor a protectionist, Harkin often sounds like both. When he declared his candidacy, he spoke approvingly of Abraham Lincoln's decision to buy expensive railway track from domestic foundries rather than import cheaper supplies from Britain...
Miller's drama would be treasure enough by the standards of Broadway, where only six straight plays are on offer at the moment -- three revivals, an Irish import, two holdovers from last season and nothing new. In London, however, it is the centerpiece of a stage scene abruptly aquiver after a couple of years of doldrums. New plays by David Hare, Alan Ayckbourn, Hugh Whitemore and Timberlake Wertenbaker have been running. Still to come this month are a one- act from Harold Pinter and Alan Bennett's The Madness of George...
Candidates, campaign managers and curious townies took furious notes, jostled one another for a better view and speculated as to the import of each vote...