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...Instructor in Medicine Dr. Myra A. Lipes, who works at the Joslin Diabetes Center, challenged traditional thinking last month when she reported in Science that the specificity of such cells may play no role in diabetes. She found that mice genetically prone to diabetes still developed the disease even when such cells were programmed to recognize cells not in the pancreas...
Vidal has lived most of his adult life in the public eye. Even for people who have only heard of his mischievous best seller Myra Breckinridge, his image from countless TV talk shows is indelible -- by turns suave, perverse, a man smarter than anyone else on the set. His waspish ripostes can be frightening to confront but endlessly quotable later -- like his line about Ronald Reagan: "A triumph of the embalmer's art." Handsome, saturnine, Vidal projects the threat that he is capable of derailing anything...
Golgotha and Myra have several things in common: fantastic sexual gambits and a kind of Lewis Carroll flouting of the laws of time. Plotted like a mystery for late-page plot twists, it casts Paul as a tap-dancing gay, Jesus as a brilliant businessman. Drawing on the work of historian Joel Carmichael, Vidal argues that when Jesus threw the money changers out of the temple, he was destroying a sophisticated Roman financial structure that controlled banking in the Middle East -- and thereby sealing his own fate...
Vidal is also confronting the fact that old friends are dying of AIDS. He does not advertise his homosexuality, but a reader of his fiction, notably Myra, Kalki, Duluth and of course Golgotha, knows that he hates the chains of sexual identity. Throughout his literary career he has played endlessly with the notions of bisexuality or transsexuality. If readers find the new novel repellent, it may be that it is no longer easy to laugh at scenes in which Nero rapes Timothy ("Tighten those beautiful little buns") or to laugh off lewd goings-on along the missionary trail...
...marketing campaigns alone aren't always enough to woo black consumers. "Blacks want to see the company involved and contributing," says public relations consultant Myra Bauman. "The concept of a good corporate citizen is important to us." That can mean hiring more black employees, making contributions to black causes, placing ads in the black media, using black suppliers or even naming blacks to the company's board of directors...