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...Olivier Awards next spring. Which is fine by me, since I'm as fond of saucy Broadway musicals as of silly-smart British TV comedy. If an impudent young satire like Monty Python and the Holy Grail should mellow into a fat and happy Spamalot, that's just the normal lifespan of transgressive pop culture: first to be dismissed as shocking, then to be accepted as trailblazing and finally to be cherished in dewy memory. The Idle show returns the Python troupe to their music-hall roots, and is a spiffy entertainment on its own - near as pleasing...
...come up with is that this genomic data is like having just the names in a phone book; it's only a list. We want to know what those genes do. So we can now go to the mouse atlas, which gives us the gene [activity] pattern in a normal mouse brain. Is this gene expressed in normally? Is it expressed at a higher or lower level in a tumor? We use the atlas every day, to figure out which genes are important to the biology of the tumor, and which are bystanders...
...caught in a custody dispute. She sees her fathers two days a week and splits vacation time between households. However, the four parents always manage to take some holiday together and, says Rajzman, the girl is being brought up to view her family arrangement as perfectly normal. "We teach her that there are families with a father, mother and children; families with a single father or a single mother, and families with two women or two men that live together. She knows what kind of family configuration she has." The French authorities do not. Neither Kleitz nor Rajzman have...
...regional banks. The latter lend almost as much as the big banks. Furthermore, NPLs have fallen partly because more than 26% of all loans charge an interest rate of less than 1% and 9% charge less than 0.5%. How will these borrowers fare as interest rates return to normal...
...Testament God.) On his Washington stage, Black naturally has opinions about George W. Bush, who makes him very angry. He's also miffed at the Democrats for not finding a candidate who could defeat Bush in 2004: "It would be like finding a normal person who would lose in the Special Olympics." This is familiar but uncomfortable...