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Rather than charging forward like "Anarchy in the U.K." (or like "Johnny B. Goode," for that matter), the songs on The Raincoats seem to stutter, or stumble, or struggle ahead, with Aspinall's violin in the lead; the momentum they do achieve builds up within the course of each song. Standout pieces like "Fairytale in the Supermarket" and "Black and White" (which begins with siren-like saxophone bleats) fall together as they go along, as if the improv techniques of free jazz had suddenly been discovered to apply to rock and roll, or as if-and I think this...
...down than the one implicated in Huntington's disease -- which was finally located after a decade-long search last year. Not only did it turn out to be tucked into a particularly hard-to-reach spot on the tip of chromosome 4, but it was what scientists call a "stuttering gene." Hidden in its DNA is a sequence of nucleotides that spells out the same genetic word -- in this case, CAG -- again and again. The normal version of this gene contains anywhere from 11 to perhaps 34 copies of this three- letter stutter. The defective Huntington's gene, researchers discovered...
Israeli and Palestinian talks stutter toward resolution...
...discovery of the defect, a "genetic stutter" of three nucleotides, the basepairs which make up DNA, should make possible a quicker and more inexpensive test for the disease, and eventually a better understanding of the mechanism which kills brain cells in the approximately 25,000 U.S. Huntington's patients...
...Hasidic Jew), she re-created onstage the words of more than two dozen witnesses and participants, based on her own interviews. Adapted for PBS's American Playhouse (April 28), the 90-minute piece is riveting, a TV documentary as performance art. Smith precisely reproduces every word and stutter, the rhetorical bombast and silly yammerings. All seem to be aspects of the same human need for self-justification, yet Smith shows empathy for each and not a hint of condescension...