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...comedy My Führer, which had modest success at the box office. Yet even Levy confesses to feeling queasy while watching The Producers in a theater full of Germans. "It hurts sometimes to watch people laugh at something that was so cruel," he says. "But every step we take towards dealing with the past more courageously is good...
...certainly a daunting challenge to begin teasing out the individual genes that may contribute to autism, as the UCLA team has with CACNA1G, but databases like AGRE make the job slightly easier. The next step will be to try to use known autism genes to help develop screening tools or early interventions. "We are going to have a much better understanding of the causes of autism over the next five to 10 years," says Dawson. "We're in a period of great discovery...
...those taking the next step, to noncork stoppers, it's not just about TCA. Duval-Leroy says another reason she's turning to the Maestro is that she doesn't want to gamble her production on the long-term survival of the world's cork forests. "It's frankly worrisome to think that you have a million bottles in the cellar and there could be an ecological catastrophe and you'd have no alternative closures," she says. (See "Champagne's Bubbly Personalities...
With a 360-ft.-high (110 m) steel flame swooping up from its roof, topped by a Jetsons-esque rocket, Moscow's Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics has opened again, after more than three years of expansion and renovation - one small step in Russia's effort to claim a more prominent place on the world stage by highlighting its past glory in space exploration...
...initial step toward what could be the first wrongful-death suit of its kind, Texas resident Steven Trunnell has filed a petition against Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer, based in Virginia, and the owner of a massive pig farm in Perote, Mexico, near the village of La Gloria, where the earliest cases of the new H1N1 flu were detected. Trunnell filed the petition in his home state on behalf of his late wife, Judy Dominguez Trunnell, the 33-year-old special-education teacher who on May 4 became the first U.S. resident to die of H1N1...