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...Edelman said his previous method of running many individual websites through N2H2 is not enough to find out everything the program blocks...
Extremophiles also represent a biotech bonanza, pumping out unique substances that could be invaluable in all sorts of industrial and medical applications (see box). Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), for example, the DNA-amplifying method used most famously in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, exploits an enzyme manufactured by a Yellowstone extremophile...
...Petrissage: Squeezing, rolling and kneading. A Swedish method that usually follows effleurage...
...Rosen method: Tender touch coupled with verbal communication to help release suppressed emotions as well as muscle tension...
DIED. ROD STEIGER, 77, cuttingly intelligent actor who put the menace in the Method; from kidney failure; in Los Angeles. After Navy service he joined an Actors Studio class that included Marlon Brando (whose corruptive brother he would play in On the Waterfront) and helped to free stage and film performance from the kingdom of nice. But Steiger was no mumbler; he spat his lines with acid precision. He often played tyrants--Napoleon, Al Capone, Mussolini (twice)--but his presence was grander: he suggested the Old Testament God, annoyed at the world's slow wit. Even as The Pawnbroker...