Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really normal?" theme in Equus won't win any points for originality. But the fact that the question is even asked in the face of the initial revulsion towards the crime is a tribute to the well-written script. As if animal mutilation wasn't enough, the play insists on bringing in anti-religiousness, bestiality and profanity--as if to ensure that every member of the audience is offended at some point. Remarkably enough, these themes illuminate rather than distract from the core of the story...
Foley and Thibodeau perform excellently in their opposition to Lewy. From sudden impassioned outbursts to normal family dialogue, they make the characters believable and coherent. Foley had a particularly difficult job in portraying Ozzie so well, because the character borders on an incredible madness. He cannot deal with his wounded son's attitude and the questions it raises about his own youth and his own interaction with war. At times Ozzie appears normal, and at others he oversteps the bounds of rationality...
...therapy strategically splices foreign DNA--which direct the assembly of specific proteins--into the cells of certain tissues. Researchers hope that when these proteins are expressed, they will allow the body's normal metabolic and immune systems to react in lethal fashion, either killing the disease or fixing the defect in the original gene...
Right now, the process of combining foreign DNA with the DNA of vulnerable normal cells is only possible in the laboratory...
...small. Malbon and his team measured enzyme abundance in the breast cells of just 30 women, 11 of whom had undergone surgery to remove suspicious tumors. Cells taken from the tumors, later shown to be cancerous, contained MAP-kinase levels 5 to 20 times as high as those in normal breast cells. But other researchers argue that you would have to examine a lot more patients before drawing any firm conclusions...