Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police and the FBI immediately suspected an inside job. One of two electronic alarms that should have alerted a nearby 24-hour central security station was inexplicably turned off. The thieves seemed suspiciously knowledgeable about the company's security operations, locating with ease a switch that opened the building's garage door. At week's end, authorities were poring over the records of 200 past and present Sentry employees. Still at large were the robbers, and still missing was their loot. Latest count: a staggering $10.4 million...
...positive of the mechanism involved," say Drs. Arthur Neinhuis and Timothy Ley of the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Hematology Branch. The scientists speculate that, basically, the drug works by stripping genes of chemicals that have repressed their activity, allowing them to switch on again. The genes affected are those that produce hemoglobin for the developing fetus. These fetal genes turn off around birth as other genes take over to produce hemoglobin for human life outside the womb. Scientists still do not know why there are two sets of genes for making hemoglobin...
Despite the initial success, the researchers remain extremely cautious. Though only one patient experienced mild and transient nausea and vomiting, doctors worry about administering a toxic anticancer drug forlong periods. Another concern: What other genes are being altered? A fear is that the drug approach may inadvertently switch on recently discovered cancer genes that apparently lie dormant in most people. Nonetheless, noted Hematologist Edward Benz of Yale University School of Medicine, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the NEJM, "this research represents a major new step in treating disease and demonstrates beyond doubt that genetic manipulation has come...
Harvard returns to Cambridge for a show down Tuesday with Stanford. The Crimson and the Cardinal were supposed to meet last year for the Briggs Dedication game, but construction delays forced the postponement of the inaugural ceremonies. The teams agreed to switch the sites of the home-and-home series setting up this year's dedication shootout...
...danger in the most commonplace phrases and gestures. But there were problems in adapting Styron's tale, to which Pakula deferred in his dogged fidelity to the book. For one thing, the choice Sophie must make takes place years before the main story begins; so the film must switch tracks halfway through for a half-hour flashback to a Nazi death camp. Though the sequence is as strong and beautifully detailed as the rest of Pakula's work, the events it depicts could have been narrated by Sophie in a few minutes, and should have been. (The film...