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There is other evidence that the beginning of genetic surgery is not far off. Dr. Sol Spiegelman of Columbia University has synthesized an artificial virus that is indistinguishable from its natural model and has used it to infect bacteria and produce new viruses. He and his colleagues have little doubt that they will also eventually create "friendly" viruses and use them to cure disease rather than cause it?by using the viruses to stimulate the production of the chemical products upon which health and life itself depend...
Unable to reproduce themselves, viruses invade normal cells and use their hosts' chemical mechanisms to produce more viruses. Eventually, the infected cell ruptures, releasing the newly formed viruses to infect other cells. Dr. Howard Temin of the University of Wisconsin has shown that some tumor viruses behave differently. They reverse the normal order of genetic transmission, and with the aid of a recently discovered enzyme, use their RNA messenger molecules to produce DNA, the double-helix master molecule. In a way not yet understood, this triggers the cellular genetic machinery to order cell division, causing the cancerous growth that...
...bloody martyrdom in a contemporary Pilate's court-a barbaric red, white and blue rally sponsored by WUSA. Geraldine's symbolic vulnerability propels her to suicide, while Rheinhardt's apathy naturally puts him back on the road to nowhere. It is no secret that virulent ideas infect the U.S. at both extremes of the political spectrum. The Newmans have chosen to level their attack on the right flank; they should have confined their battle to the hustings. To paraphrase a hoary Hollywood adage, messages ought to be sent by Western Union, not fictitious radio stations...
...much of that continent. Soon the State Department's Dean Acheson was pushing the decision to aid Greece and Turkey against Communist subversion as part of the Truman Doctrine. U.S. failure to combat Communism there, he proclaimed, could "open three continents to Soviet penetration?like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe...
...tapes of Janis Joplin singing with Big Brother and the Stones, rather Mick Jagger, singing "You Can't Always Get What You Want," which will make you hate yourself for not being in the front row of the Boston Garden last Thanksgiving. And the tapes of Woodstock may so infect you with the spirit of that great historio-cultural event as to talk with the person on the cushion next to yours...