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...newly discovered defect does not in itself produce cancer in the way that an inherited defect causes cystic fibrosis or sickle-cell anemia. "What the mutant gene does is create a predisposition to cancer," Vogelstein explains. "And it's only with additional mutations after birth that the cancer will appear...
Deanie Gauthier, who calls herself the Mutant, is in far worse shape. She's a foul-mouthed outcast a couple of years younger than Sam; her response to sexual abuse by her mother's boyfriend is self-abasement in several directions. She shaves her head and wears a nose ring and chains, shrugs at kindness and buys drugs with sex. But she plays ball with amazing ferocity, and she and Sam lead their respective teams to the Maine championships, falling into a sad, touching losers' love affair along...
...eerily confident mind, Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) is both a motion-picture visionary and a good old-fashioned showman. To his critics -- just about every zit-free moviegoer in the country -- he's a schlockmeister, producer of a string of cheapo '50s horror movies in which mutant monsters, by-products of nuclear carelessness, at once symbolize and exploit everyone's edginess about the recently unleashed atom...
...There is no end to our effrontery. In Arizona a mutant Chinese grass carp, the sterile triploid amur, has been released into the ponds and water hazards of golf courses to keep the water free of entangling weeds lest golf balls be lost or the scenery spoiled. An African fish, the tilapia, cruises irrigation canals devouring any growth that might impede the water flow, but it endangers the Colorado River's sport fish. Coast to coast, European starlings darken the skies. A century ago, the first few were released in New York City by a reader of Shakespeare bent...
...people who are already infected. By injecting a slightly modified form of the virus' protein coat, the Army researchers hope to kick-start the patients' immune systems into mounting an effective counterattack. Redfield thinks that his version of the viral coat may share enough characteristics with all the known mutant strains of HIV to overcome the variability problem. Said Redfield, a rare, unabashed optimist at the Amsterdam meeting: "I believe HIV is very simple, very straightforward, and it's going to be solved...