Word: multifacetedness
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To find out, developmental biologist Walter Gehring and two colleagues focused on a gene known as eyeless. Fruit flies that lacked this gene, they knew, failed to develop eyes. But the researchers wanted to know more about the powers of eyeless. So they inserted multiple copies of the gene into...
"He is such a complex and multifaceted person,that to single out this one characteristic iscompletely ignorant of who he is," Ho said.
Anna Deavere Smith takes a different, almost journalistic approach to drama. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is based on 220 interviews that she conducted with Los Angeles residents of every race and economic class after the city's devastating riot in 1992. Onstage Smith employs her formidable talent for mimicry to...
"Michael never wanted a No. 2 person," says Richard Frank, who runs the TV unit at Disney. In fact, Eisner, who underwent a successful quadruple-bypass operation two months ago, was looking not to share power but to disperse it -- to impose a system not of hierarchy but lowerarchy, with...
But the political and economic situation in Japan and its neighbors changes far faster than the time it takes to write and publish a book. Electoral developments in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea over the past 18 months reveal an increasingly multifaceted and demanding body politic that will force a...