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...from normal cellular genes--some of the genes that guide our growth and development. These genes, now called oncogenes, undergo the mutations that are the defining events in cancer. Obscure viruses from experimental animals had in this way allowed us to touch directly the heart of human cancer. A path to understanding has been opened...
Investigators have been stymied by the crimes, though prime suspects such as the terrorist groups Hamas and the Shining Path have yet to deny responsibility for the incidents. Members of the Harvard Independent were also unaccounted for during the times of the burglary, sources said...
...couple of years ago, Oprah Winfrey took a look at the tawdry TV talk world that surrounded her and got disgusted. "There's no honor, no integrity in it," she said, as she set about putting her own show on a new path, ignoring sensationalism in favor of "positive" subject matter. Her No. 1 ratings took a dip, while the Ricki Lakes and Jerry Springers became, briefly, the rage. In the end, however, Winfrey proved once again to be a trendsetter. The sleazy talk phenomenon soon peaked: politicians complained, viewers grew bored, shows were canceled--and Winfrey...
...physicists now think they're finally on the right track with something known as superstring theory; young theorists are flocking to study its abstruse mathematics, convinced that therein lies the path to ultimate truth. And that's largely owing to Edward Witten, 44, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton...
...power is clout, like the thud of an iron heel. Influence is sway, like being rocked in a hammock. But like the grass in Carl Sandburg's poem, influence has a way of spreading until it overwhelms every bump in its path. Leonid Brezhnev had power. Andrei Sakharov had influence. Power: the FCC. Influence: Howard Stern. What this means is that influence generally gets the last laugh. Alexander Hamilton never attained the presidency. His philosophical antagonist Thomas Jefferson did. But the world has gone Hamilton's way. By most measures, the country we live in today more closely resembles...