Word: steers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them all out of the woods: the most complete account yet of Bill Clinton's deposition about what did and did not occur between him and Paula Jones, and Gennifer Flowers, and four other women--and above all Monica Lewinsky. Now everyone around her and the President can steer more surely through their testimony, duly warned of the hazards ahead...
...steps into the shoes of the current Premier, Li, the challenges before him are more complicated than rescuing an auto factory. With half a dozen of China's neighbors financially shipwrecked, Zhu must steer China's 1.2 billion people through some dangerous political and economic shoals. Among his most immediate problems: repairing a chaotic and bankrupt financial system, closing thousands of rust-bucket factories useful only for soaking up excess labor, and stemming rising unemployment and social unrest, which recently exploded in a fatal bomb blast in the industrial city of Wuhan...
That raspy drawl, the salt-and-pepper hair, a doughnut-stuffed belly hanging over his belt. Others in Primary Colors tried to steer clear of real-life inspiration; John Travolta became a Bill Clinton clone. It took weeks to master the familiar vocal cadence and body language, but the feel-your-pain sincerity came easier. "The scary thing about this part is, take away the Southern accent and gray hair, and I don't respond that differently to people," he says, dunking a taquito into a lump of guacamole as he unwinds in his trailer after work. "I'm good...
Until now. Researchers led by Dr. Clifford Steer at the University of Minnesota Medical School report in the current Nature Medicine that they have eliminated the need for viruses by harnessing the body's own genetic repair processes. In a landmark proof-of-concept experiment, the Minnesota team permanently altered a blood-clotting gene in 40% of the liver cells in a group of rats. The researchers started by splicing their DNA patch into a slip of RNA. Then they encased the hybrid molecule in a protective coating, laced it with sugars that seek out liver cells and injected...
...need something," pronounces the TV producer. "A guide. A talisman. A set of rules. A compass to steer us through this everlasting night." It's typical of this intense, unsettling play that the most truthful (and very nearly the only coherent) thoughts are expressed by the character who's a stand-in for Satan. The rest are a desperate, surprisingly poignant lot who are powerless to resist their appetites yet aware that facing up to them is part of the struggle toward salvation. That struggle, and this evening, are hard to shake...