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...when cellular glues become too sticky or fail to hold, the outcome is often disastrous. In cancer, for instance, advancing tumors often secrete an enzyme that chews up their matrix, freeing malignant cells to leak into the bloodstream. Some inevitably stick and proliferate at sites elsewhere in the body. Thus the lethal process of metastasis may be viewed as a breakdown in stickiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Glue of Life | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...missile complex at Grand Forks, N. Dak., the only strategic-defense site permitted by the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. If that agreement can be renegotiated with the Russians, congressional SDI-niks hope to expand Grand Forks into a $35 billion nationwide network of 700 interceptors. But a second leak last week could chill those plans: a draft Pentagon report now concludes that even the proposed national-defense site at Grand Forks would violate the ABM treaty. And that, says Federation of American Scientists space policy director John Pike, is what all the urgency is really about. "They're trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Wars Under Fire | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

Homophobia used to send Thomas into spasms ofdepression. Now, he fights back. A few months ago, two guys from the Law School screamed about "fucking faggots" while taking a leak of Adams House. Thomas and a friend chased the men down Plympton Street, catching one of them and holding him for the police...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fun Is What It's All About | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

Students enrolled in the course were instructed not to utter the words "cryptanalysis," "intelligence" or "security" outside the classroom under any circumstances. They were also warned not to leak any information to the media...

Author: By Alessandra M. Galloni, | Title: Radcliffe and the War | 6/2/1992 | See Source »

...leak caused an uproar on Capitol Hill, where legislators are looking to cut costs and share burdens. Senator Joseph Biden, a Democrat, scoffed at the idea of "America as 'Globocop.' " At a recent international conference in Lisbon, I found Europeans and Japanese still fretting about the Times's scoop, which they took as proof that the U.S. is bent on giving new meaning to old cliches like Pax Americana and Uncle Sam as the world's policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Peacekeeping Loves Company | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

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