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...performances are broad - well, beyond broad: zaftig - but mostly precise. The actors give the impression this is what they love doing, that they've been rehearsing this stuff in front of their mirrors since they were kids and, praise be, someone finally asked them to do it in public...
When politicians leave office, they tend to spend their time flying around the world giving speeches on things like globalization and nation building. In other words, doing pretty much the same stuff they did when they had a job. But LECH WALESA, 59, founder of the Solidarity movement in Poland and that nation's President from 1990 to '95, is turning his nonpolitical hobby into a second career. Starting next month, Walesa will be host of a regular fishing show on Polish public television. But the devoted angler and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is doing the show gratis...
...their list of prohibited substances and methods. The ban, which defines the problem as the nontherapeutic use of genetic elements and/or cells that can enhance performance, will come into effect from the beginning of next year. Could genetic doping really be used by athletes, or is this still the stuff of science fiction? In the U.S., scientists have already used cell manipulation to rebuild muscle mass in mice. Athletes could be next, with some experts fearing that genetic or cell doping could surface as early as the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. Says Charles Yesalis, a professor of exercise...
...born with ambiguous genitalia is “a life-changing event,” according to Atala. “For us it’s very serious stuff,” he says. “We’re the ones who have to face the parents when the baby is born. It’s very devastating. You can’t even tell the family in the first 48 hours whether the baby is a boy or a girl...
...roommates threw. “One time at a party, I thought that these guys were friends of my roommates, but they were actually thieves,” he remembers. “We didn’t realize this until they had jumped out the window with our stuff...