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Your article about political strategist Dick Morris was frightening with its myriad implications of no character and double-crossing [THE DEMOCRATS, Sept. 2]. You described an amorphous chameleon who fed Bill Clinton what the voters want to hear, providing the President with a platform that echoes issues back to the voter. This is scarier than Orwell's classic, 1984. Of course we want to hear that; we said it. I hope the average person can judge Clinton's character by the company he keeps. BOB WHITE Chula Vista, California...
Here I find a freedom given to anyone willing to develop in myriad directions, especially along horizontal, collectivizing itineraries, that embrace both literature of the early medieval and early modern ages and cinema. Here I have taught Rabelais with a few good Pantagruelists, am on the verge of teaching film with a larger student body, and things cartographic and Baroque with a scattered few. If the students of film become what Susan Sontag and Jean-Luc Godard call passionate cinephiles, they will be no less stalwart, no less engaged, and no less given over to the endless pleasure and thrill...
With the structure of DNA so revealed, medical scientists began as never before to focus their attention on the internal functioning of the cell and the myriad chemical interactions that are the essence of the activities of all living things. The new field of study soon established itself as a distinct scientific specialty, known as molecular biology, and grew so rapidly that some of the brightest young minds in the Western world began flocking to its bustling labs and classrooms...
...cancer but does not make it inevitable. While the gene apparently confers an 85% risk of developing breast cancer and a 40%-to-60% risk of ovarian cancer, women who test positive may reduce that risk considerably, says Mark Skolnick, who led the team at Salt Lake City's Myriad Genetics that isolated the gene. He suggests they adopt a program that includes, among other things, exercise and a low-fat diet, and that they avoid doses of estrogen after menopause. Some go further, opting to have their ovaries removed or even choosing prophylactic mastectomies...
...strategies pharmaceutical firms are using in drug development for genetic disorders vary widely. If the gene defect results in a protein that does not function, says Myriad's Skolnick, "you would try to replace that function by introducing a correct version of the protein into the body. Or you would try to mimic the function of the missing protein with a synthetic compound...