Word: perilousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...living cells didn't have a fondness for sticking together, we would all be colorful gobs of jelly oozing all over the floor. Fortunately, cells hold to a basic biological premise that stickiness is desirable for form and essential for function. They violate this premise at our peril. When cells become either too sticky or too slippery, arteries can get clogged, cancer cells can skate around the body, and inflammation can turn subversive. Researchers have long believed that if they could somehow manipulate stickiness, they would have a formidable new set of tools for healing...
...world. Today bobsledding down a slippery slope is exactly what Western leaders fear most about intervening in the former Yugoslav republic. Even short of a Desert Storm-scale operation, how can the deployment of multinational firepower be justified here and now when other peoples are also in mortal peril -- starving Somalis, say, or junta-persecuted Burmese? And if intrusion is justified, what force could conceivably sort out a vicious blood feud among hill folk who have helped write the book on guerrilla warfare...
...cast FAME'S PERIL (pocket Books; $19). Harrison Ford could play ace reporter Jack Werts -- a man's man fed up with the Hollywood newsbeat and a dedicated chaser of bimbos. Ceci McCann, ambitious blond TV reporter, could be played by any number of ambitious blond starlets. And Robert Redford could play the star turned director whose son is kidnapped. In a slick comic-book thriller, TIME contributor Martha Smilgis works a writer's hustle (Is it a book, or is it a screenplay?) in the area she knows best, Hollywood and % entertainment news. And in the tradition of Cecil...
...Boomerang (June 26), Eddie Murphy also tries a change of pace -- at his peril, according to Grove. "This film does not present Murphy as a winner. It has him falling in love with a girl ((Robin Givens)) who rejects him, so it may have a weakness." But how weak can an Eddie Murphy movie be? Even his flops earn $60 million to $80 million. And the last time he played a romantic naif, in Coming to America, he made megamillions...
...little money. Attend an Earth Day rally, write a check, recycle the trash -- that's about all it takes. But for some of the most determined defenders, the commitment -- and the costs -- can be much higher. Around the world, more and more ecoactivists are paying with pain and peril, and sometimes their lives...