Word: procession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Palestinians and Jordanians I have met accuse Israel of stealing their water. When I was driven around Amman by my host family's father, he pointed to a little boy in the street, playing in the runoff sewer water, as a dramatic explanation of Jordanian pessimism concerning the peace process. How can we, the Jordanian people, be optimistic about some high-falutin peace between kings and prime ministers when we do not have enough water to drink, to grow and to prosper...
...build it. And so it came as important news on Thursday when the science journal Nature revealed that a team of researchers had succeeded for the first time in turning a normal human cell into a cancerous cell through genetic alterations in the laboratory. The long-sought process involved inserting three genes, one that causes cells to grow relentlessly, another that keeps them from aging, and a third that blocks growth-stopping signals...
...Though there are no clinical applications for this process at the moment," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, "this is an important basic research advance." Scientists have been able to turn normal human cells into cancerous cells before by using chemicals or X-rays. "But this has been a hit-or-miss proposition," says Gorman. "The new laboratory process will help scientists understand more clearly what are the genetic steps." This is important because cancer cells exhibit so many genetic changes that scientists are at present not sure which changes are cause and which are effect. The precise procedures used...
Ehud Barak may be lauded in Western and Arab capitals as a champion of peace, but now that they've actually got down to dealing, the Palestinians have found they've bitten into a tough cookie. Barak and Yasser Arafat had a meeting Tuesday aimed at restarting the peace process, and the outcome was anything but positive. "The atmosphere in the meeting was tense and the gulf between the two sides? positions remains deep and wide," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. Despite Arafat?s reluctant agreement to respond in two weeks to Barak?s proposal to delay land...
...provoking some of his coalition partners to withdraw," says Hamad. "But this isn?t a new issue, and as far as the Palestinians are concerned, it?s an Israeli issue. Arafat, too, is under immense pressure from within his own ranks to deliver on the promises of the peace process." Adding to Arafat's problems is that Palestinian concerns are of diminishing importance among Arab leaders, such as Syria's Hafez al-Assad, most of whom are eager to cement a long-term regional peace. That, and President Clinton?s coaxing, may eventually force Arafat to accept Barak?s terms...