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...debate crime and punishment all we want, but it is worth listening to the man who presides over the country's largest maximum-security prison, who actually holds the hands of the men he is ordered to execute before they die and who tells them to "get ready to see the face of Jesus." Angola prison warden Burl Cain figures his job will probably wreck his marriage eventually. "My wife, she doesn't like that she's married a killer," he says. "There are very few things I hide from, but I hide from that." Cain tries to make...
...another, most of those millions of proteins are just variations on a handful of themes. Proteins with similar functions--be they in insect, worm or man--often share structural characteristics that are reflected in the genes that encode them. Structural biologist Stephen Burley of Rockefeller University estimates that the maximum number of distinct shapes may be as few as 5,000. The NIGMS hopes to construct a lexicon of shapes--barrels, doughnuts, globular spheres, molecular zippers and so on--that when mixed and matched will spell the shape of any gene's product. About 1,000 of these structures...
...influence in some of the capitals that most perplex U.S. policy makers - Pyongyang, Havana and Belgrade. There's nothing ideological about this. It's just a pragmatic, calculating attempt to assert the national interests of a newly capitalist Russia on the global stage, playing Moscow's weaker hand to maximum advantage. And he'll prove quite a match for the next U.S. administration if its conception of foreign policy is limited to exporting democracy...
CHRONOMEDICINE Timing is everything, say Michael Smolensky and Lynne Lamberg, authors of The Body Clock Guide to Better Health: How to Use Your Body's Natural Clock to Fight Illness and Achieve Maximum Health (Henry Holt). This provocative book explores chronobiology, the science of body time. It is a brand-new discipline that asserts that you must adjust the care of your body to coincide with your natural clock. In that way, say the authors, you can determine the best time to take your medicine, exercise, have sex if you want to conceive, prevent jet lag and the like...
...president has good reason to covet the advice of a man whose consummate skill as foreign minister - whether dealing with the Gulf crisis or the enlargement of NATO - was playing a poor hand to maximum advantage. Although the current foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, is a firm, erudite and self-assured Primakov prot?g?, he doesn't have his tutor's strategic vision and skill, his experience or his Rolodex. Primakov's presence, both on Putin's European tour and at the funeral of Syrian president Hafez Assad, suggests the president is eager to make use of his erstwhile rival's expertise...