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...them to lay out in sharp detail the changes that cause a cell to go from normal to malignant. "The cancer cell used to be a black box," says Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., physician in chief of New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "But the lid of the black box has been opened, and we can see the wheels turning inside." The "wheels" are genes that regulate growth. Some, called oncogenes, activate the process of cell division; others, known as tumor- suppressor genes, or anti-oncogenes, turn the process off. In their normal form, both kinds...
While keeping the lid on personal liberties, the House of Saud has also held on tightly to its monopoly on power. Within the Saud clan, which includes 5,000 princes, there is considerable consultation. Still, government is a closed shop. There is not a single elected official and not a single political party...
Pauley keeps a tight lid on details of her family life, partly for security reasons, partly because of a determination to shield her children from the public spotlight. But there is another, more philosophical consideration. "To the degree that your family becomes part of your image," she says, "it becomes less real. Someone once referred to my family as 'authentic.' One of the reasons it's authentic is that there's no confusion between the Trudeaus and the Cosby kids. I am very sensitive to the fact that there's a certain imagemaking attendant to my career...
Each summer, this list was my faithful companion--or rather my albatross--never leaving my side. I even conscientiously taped it to the inside lid of my trunk and brought it with me to camp along with my baseball glove and tennis racket. Every day when I opened my trunk in a vain attempt to find a clean T-shirt and shorts, I found that list staring me in the face, daring me to read the required seven books and fill in each of those seven blanks on the page...
...army was divided as to how to handle the Tiananmen protests, and MacFarquhar says military leaders are almost certainly still split. "When Deng Xiaoping dies, that essential lid on top of this boiling cauldron will be taken off," he says...