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...expectations that Hussein would cast the P.L.O. and Arafat into outer darkness at the Amman meeting were soon doomed to disappointment. Even so, the P.L.O. leader was uneasy as he arrived from Baghdad on Monday for his session at Hussein's Al Nadwa Palace. He had reason for anxiety. Hussein was infuriated by the Achille Lauro hijacking. The King was even more irked by the collapse of an Oct. 14 meeting in London between British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and two P.L.O. representatives, one of whom scuttled the session by refusing to acknowledge Israel's right to exist...
...disease have blood-cholesterol levels six to ten times normal and can suffer heart attacks as early as age two. By comparing skin cells from victims with those of healthy people, the two scientists traced the problem to an absence or deficiency of LDL receptors, proteins that stud the outer membranes of most cells, particularly those of the liver. Then they decoded the complex minuet that takes place between the receptor and its LDL particle. Says Baltimore: "That was important for understanding how cells communicate with their environment...
Today the Security Council exists mostly as a place to let off steam. Former Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick has called it a "Turkish bath." Laments Brian Urquhart, Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs: "There are moments when I feel that only an invasion from outer space will reintroduce into the Security Council that unanimity and spirit which the founders of the charter were talking about...
Tomlin's most appealing impersonation remains Trudy the Bag Lady, who talks with aliens from outer space and wears pantyhose rolled down as though they were leg irons, but who knows exactly what is going on when she mocks gene splicing and pop art, or explains the virtues of the umbrella hat. The most poignant sequence is a reminiscence by a woman who is selling her home and its contents after the breakup of her marriage to what seemed to be a sensitive, feminist man. The piece is at once an unabashed defense of human-potential movements and a candid...
HRV14 is marvelously complex; its genetic material is surrounded by a 20- sided outer shell that vaguely resembles a soccer ball. The sides consist of three identical triangles each containing three proteins on its irregular surface, and one below it. On the surface proteins, the researchers discovered, features that resemble mountaintops are actually antigens, structures that antibodies seek out and attach themselves to when attacking the virus. A "canyon" snakes between these mountaintops and is believed by scientists to be shaped specifically to fit over projections, or receptors, on the surface of human cells. The virus may use this canyon...