Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...School's gain is the Supreme Judicial Court's loss, and Massachusetts Governor A. Paul Cellucci is in the process of selecting nominees to fill the slots vacated by Fried and fellow justice Herbert Wilkins. Of the 15 nominees, four are Harvard Law School graduates...
...region ? at Israel?s request. "Naturally the Palestinians were very unhappy about Albright?s decision, because they wanted her to come and get in the middle," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "While the Israelis want the U.S. to scale down its direct role in the peace process, the Palestinians need someone else in the ring, because otherwise they?re always getting clobbered...
...remaining troop withdrawals for fear of leaving Israeli settlements isolated in Palestinian territory. "Barak would prefer a final status agreement before completing the troop withdrawal, because he believes isolating the settlements gives hard-liners on both sides an incentive to stir up trouble and jeopardize the process," says Beyer. Previous redeployments have prompted Palestinian militants to shoot at settlers and have spurred the settlers to expand their settlements. Barak knows he?ll have to dismantle some of the settlements as part of the final agreement, but believes a piecemeal Israeli withdrawal ahead of such an agreement is even riskier than...
Scientists have known for more than two decades that cancer is a disease of the genes. Something scrambles the Dna inside a nucleus, and suddenly, instead of dividing in a measured fashion, a cell begins to copy itself furiously. Unlike an ordinary cell, it never stops. But describing the process isn't the same as figuring it out. Cancer cells are so radically different from normal ones that it's almost impossible to untangle the sequence of events that made them that way. So for years researchers have been attacking the problem by taking normal cells and trying to determine...
...mouse cells differ from human cells in an important respect: they have higher levels of an enzyme called telomerase. That enzyme keeps caplike structures called telomeres on the ends of chromosomes from getting shorter with each round of cell division. Such shortening is part of a cell's aging process, and since cancer cells keep dividing forever, the Whitehead group reasoned that making human cells more mouselike might also make them cancerous...