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Question the status quo: That seems to be the conclusion, whether your issue is grapes or capitalism or a crappy summer job. We've learned and forgotten a lot of stuff in four years. But finally, we've gleaned from our experiences with this Harvard achievement rat race one thing: the smartest people in the whole affair are the ones who remember to keep thinking...
Other substances in the works may be further from the market, but they are in some ways even more exciting. Several of them take aim at a growth-signaling protein made by a gene called RAS (for rat sarcoma, the cancer in which it was first discovered). In about 30% of cancers, the RAS protein is stuck in an "on" position, mindlessly ordering the cell to divide again and again. It plays a role in 90% of pancreatic cancers, 50% of colon cancers and 25% of lung cancers. Dr. Edward Scolnick discovered the RAS gene in rats while working...
...watches Seinfeld than watched Who's the Boss in 1988. To put it another way, Tony Danza's place in the nation's consciousness was as big a decade ago as Jerry Seinfeld's is now. Go back further in time, and you'll find that shows like The Rat Patrol and Tony Orlando and Dawn had ratings of about 20. Thus the breadth of Seinfeld's audience is not at all exceptional. By this measure, it would be as logical to treat the end of Night Court as a cultural cataclysm...
...Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964). These two basically cover the "Rat Pack" phenomenon. "Ocean's Eleven" gets an edge for a semblance of plot and a winning turn by Cesar Romero as kingpin Duke Santos. "Robin" has some good musical numbers. Both are ultimately dragged down by too many flat spaces and an over-reliance on Pack charm to fill them...
High Society (1956) What the Rat Pack movies should have been: briskly plotted and musically irrepressible. A musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, with Frank joined by Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Louis Armstrong. Bing/Frank duet "Well Did You Evah" is sheer...