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...play it hot or sweet, highbrow or low-down. Wideman takes risks that do not always pay off. Writing in dialect is dangerous, and there are labored passages of multicultural rap that combine Shakespeare's Tempest and Third World politics: "Today's lesson is this immortal play about colonialism, imperialism, recidivism, the royal f over of weak by strong, colored by white, many by few, or, if you will, the birth of the nation's blues seen through the fish-eye lens of a fee fi foe englishmon...
...with a vengeance. Even Erin Matias--performing with a cast over the broken nose she suffered in the Stanford contest--sensed the sweet smell of victory. She knocked heads in the Crimson backfield until she took yet another blow to the nose, forcing her to quit...
...however, the promise of gene therapy appears to outweigh any potential pitfalls. And the acceptance of the new techniques is particularly sweet for longtime advocates. "Twenty years ago, you couldn't utter the phrase gene therapy without being told you were talking nonsense," says Dr. Theodore Friedmann, a molecular geneticist at the University of California, San Diego. "Now it's taken for granted that it's coming." He sees the day when doctors will be able to treat not only the thousands of diseases caused by a single faulty gene but even complex disorders like Parkinson's and Alzheimer...
Pick an Elvis, any Elvis at all. There's the mythic bad boy mimed, most recently, by Nicolas Cage in Wild at Heart. There is the great white whale with the red neck harpooned by Albert Goldman in his notorious unauthorized biography. Or there is the sweet prince of dreams, who provides the sound track for the heroine's housework in Alice Hoffman's recent Seventh Heaven...
While both squads grumbled over what could've been, the Wildcats were the ones that watched the sweet "W" turn sour. The Crimson overcame UNH's first-half offensive dominance and 1-0 lead to knot the score in the second half and force overtime...