Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Punctuating the chaos are three fine acrobat acts, in the Cirque du Soleil mode, of which trapezist Helene Turcotte, a muscular beauty, is the champion enthraller. But these oases of grace only underline the frenetic naivete of the rest of Pomp Duck. After 3 1/2 hours of the chef chasing the chanteuse, visitors rush out to inhale that acrid New York air as if it were attar of roses. Even Hell's Kitchen is preferable to hell's kitsch...
Like every medical revolution before it, the field of gene therapy began with the vision of a brighter future. Researchers promised to cure such hereditary disorders as cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and sickle-cell anemia, not with conventional medicine but with the magic of genetic engineering, supplanting defective genes with their normal counterparts. Patients dreamed of a life free of the diseases they had inherited. Venture capitalists dreamed of untold riches and backed the leading researchers in the field with millions of dollars of seed money...
...comes word of major technical snags in two areas of gene therapy that had been regarded as among the farthest along. Reporting in separate articles in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, researchers concluded that the most commonly used genetic treatments for cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy had run into a dead end. In both cases, scientists inserting normal genes into patients with defective ones were not able to elicit corrective changes in their patients' bodies...
...nation's elite water polo teams in last weekend's Air Force Academy Invitational in Colorado, you can bet the Harvard men's water polo team was looking forward to playing MIT--a school that might come close to Harvard academically but lags well behind the more muscular Crimson in the world of sports...
...retires Tuesday as president of the AFL-CIO, leaving behind a 13.3 member-labor organization whose influence in Washington has been declining. In a reflection of that reduced clout, just last week three powerful unions within the AFL-CIO (representing autoworkers, steelworkers and machinists) announced the formation of a muscular new 2 million-memberunionof their...