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...biological Rosetta stone that has enabled them to lay out in sharp detail the changes that cause a cell to go from normal to malignant. "The cancer cell used to be a black box," says Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., physician in chief of New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "But the lid of the black box has been opened, and we can see the wheels turning inside." The "wheels" are genes that regulate growth. Some, called oncogenes, activate the process of cell division; others, known as tumor- suppressor genes, or anti-oncogenes, turn the process...
...gene splicing. But the automobile, with its 10,000 parts and ever increasing complexity, remains one of the most challenging products to manufacture and a telling measure of an industrial society's capabilities. "Saturn will have enormous psychological impact on American business," says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. "If Saturn is successful, it will prove that it's possible to junk the old bureaucracies, change the corporate culture, change the adversarial relationship between union and management, and put it all back together right. If they succeed, it will be a big positive for America...
...HOMER: HIS LATE PAINTINGS AND THEIR INFLUENCE, Cleveland Museum of Art. Often considered an isolated original, Homer is here seen as a figure of continuity. Fifteen of his views of the Maine coast are hung alongside 44 works by painters on whom he left his mark -- among them John Sloan, Edward Hopper and John Marin. Through...
Wilson also awarded the first Levi Prize yesterday to Jacqueline Sloan '90, a social studies concentrator from Toledo, Ohio. The prize was established this year to recognize the undergraduate women who has "demonstrated the best combination of talent and energy with an oustanding enthusiasm for musical theater and for Radcliffe...
Perhaps anticipating hostility toward the imported help, the guide warns, "Don't frequent restaurants in close proximity to the office" or "hangouts traditionally populated by journalists." News spokesman John Sloan, who says the guide was purloined from company computers, defends the advice as "general safety tips that you would use in any big city, and nothing more than that...