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...will leave schools to compete for top students by offering higher and higher aid awards, rather than setting those awards according to need. By offering inordinately high financial aid packages to some students, colleges will insure that there is less money available for the majority of students--a result that is certainly not "in the best interest" of the country as a whole...
NIGHT MUSIC (NBC, Mondays, 12:15 a.m. EDT). Assemble a handful of the best jazz, R.-and-B. and rock artists, and turn them loose in a weekly, hour-long musical showcase that has smooth-talking alto saxman David Sanborn as host. Result: the best damn music show on television. Look for Eric Clapton, Robert Cray and Taj Mahal to perform this season...
...markets in Yerevan last week were stocked with fruits and vegetables. But fuel supplies were virtually nonexistent. Car owners waited in lines at the city's gas stations for days at a time. There were also acute shortages of many building supplies, which are in great demand as the result of the widespread damage caused by last December's earthquakes. Azerbaijani officials said the trains were beginning to move again, a claim disputed by Armenians...
...previously theorized that cancer genes were separate entities, unrelated to the healthy functioning of a cell. But in studies of a cancer-causing virus in chickens, Bishop and Varmus found that oncogenes were normal genes, vital to cell growth and development, that had somehow gone awry -- probably as a result of mutations induced by carcinogens such as cigarette smoke and radiation. The team thus helped explain the role of genetic damage in cancer development and established a common pathway by which all cancers seem to evolve. Observed Bishop: "We have the seeds of cancer in our own genetic dowry." Since...
...forced scientists to alter completely their ideas not only of how cells function but also of how life on earth began. Last week the Nobel Prize for Chemistry went to Altman and Cech, with the citation that "many chapters in our textbooks have to be revised" as a result of their pioneering studies...