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Instead, he set out to "find the essence of the drug" and remove the side effects. When Pamukcu arranged for scientists at the University of Arizona to take on the research, Nichols moved to Tucson to help oversee their work. The scientists determined that the body breaks down sulindac into two components, but then got bogged down in a debate about which of these components to pursue. After listening to the pro and cons, Nichols decided for them--they would explore both chemical pathways. In the test tube, one compound quickly proved to be superior. "It was killing...
...next few weeks a three-member administrative panel, set up under state regulations, will consider Rivers' appeal. At issue will be fundamental questions of free speech, due process and parental rights. But also, perhaps, a matter of common courtesy. "I could have walked into school on Aug. 31 without telling anyone," Rivers says. "How rude would that have been...
...knows well the vagaries of Chinese freedoms; during the Cultural Revolution, he spent 10 years banished to the countryside, where he learned English by listening to the Voice of America on his secret transistor radio while working in the paddies. Now he is planning for his company to set up an online system for stock trading and banking transactions. "As economic freedoms expand," he says, "we are inevitably securing more social freedoms and the ability to exchange the information and ideas we need to grow...
...Tchaikovsky's D Minor Nocturne and Rachmaninoff's Vocalise--the second of which she orchestrated--are clearly the work of a gifted artist. Her tone is warm and focused, her interpretations restrained yet quietly intense. No less striking are her own compositions, especially Sketches from the Catwalk, a set of laconic, minimalist-flavored cameos in which a genuinely personal voice can be heard...
...worldwide success. Dogme 2 was Von Trier's The Idiots, an aggressive comedy with porno elements. Now come Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's easy-to-take Mifune, about a young businessman who goes home to settle his late father's estate; Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive, set in Namibia and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh; and, opening next week, the first American Dogme film, julien donkey-boy, by genius nasty boy Harmony Korine...