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...prosecution had assembled. As it turned out, there was plenty. In the first two days of a hearing expected to continue at least through this week, it became apparent that lead prosecutor Marcia Clark and her team had gathered some devastating material, including enough scenes of blood to splice together a horror film...
...Short term," he says, "I think that gene therapy will be applied to a broader and broader range of diseases, with more and more clever approaches." He points to one brain-cancer trial that received initial approval just last week. Researchers will splice a herpes simplex gene into a mouse-leukemia virus that has been rendered harmless by genetic engineering, and insert the altered virus directly into the brain tumor. The virus, as is its nature, will promptly invade the nucleus of the tumor cells, endowing them with the herpes gene and making them susceptible to ganciclovir, an anti-herpes...
Orientation week is a seven-day cocktail party. It's a homework-free romp through the Yard. It's an opportunity to bond with geniuses who got 1600s on their SATs and roommates who snorkle, write award-winning poetry and splice genes in their free time. It's a long, strange trip that's completely forgotten a month later...
...stuffed on shelves and in wire bins in their cozy offices in a bohemian corner of downtown Minneapolis. They peruse the conservative American Spectator and the Match!, a magazine for anarchists; Processed World, a journal for dissident office workers; and such mainstream periodicals as Esquire in an effort to splice together chronicles of new trends and ideas. Samples of recent reprintings include an article calling for a third political party from the Progressive and a piece from the New Republic on why the rich get richer. "We want to challenge people's shibboleths," says Utne...
Less complex versions of that technology have begun to show up at electronics stores. Adventurous consumers can purchase voice-controlled personal computers, speech-activated video games, even videotape-editing machines that understand commands like "cut" and "splice...