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...expedition sets out to locate the spaceship Discovery and to examine the huge black monolith of 2001. The first part is easy; even Hal, the malevolent talking computer, which had to be electronically lobotomized in 2001, is reparable. But the crew can only watch as powers beyond its understanding transform Jupiter, which astronomers call "the star that failed," from an enormous sphere of gases into a small glowing sun capable of sustaining life on its satellites. As before, the monolith remains the piece that passeth all understanding. But no matter. Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy and a newly acquired sense...
...found that viruses could cause tumors in mice, cats, cows and a menagerie of other species. But not until 1980 did anyone identify a virus that causes cancer in human cells: Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., isolated a virus that can transform normal human white blood cells into the malignant type found in a rare cancer called T-cell leukemia. The same virus was found last year to be responsible for a relatively high rate of both T-cell leukemia and a form of lymphoma (cancer of the lymphatic system) in Japan. Says Gallo...
Obviously, one conference will not transform bureaucracy into student-administration intimacy. Beginning promptly at 9 a.m. Monday morning, some student or other will fail to get an audience at University Hall, and others will not dare enter. Yesterday's conference won't effect dramatic campus change. But its premise--and, more importantly, the humble, honest talk which took place away from the podium--are constructive, healthy signs...
...Peabody Museum of Archacology and Ethnology last month launched an 18-month, 53 million overhead which should transform the nation's oldest archacological muscum into the nation's must advanced, Peabody Director C.C. Lamberg Karlovsky said yesterday...
...heard and seen it all before. The media have spent much of the last ten years waging an all--out campaign attempting to expose cults and the bizarre processes by which they transform normal kids into zombies. Ranging from candid autobiographies of ex-moontes to last year's Ticket to Heaven, the steady stream of exposes has touched a popular nerve. Yet concern has reached a threshhold level. What the market needs now is a movie that reveals the cure, and not just the prognosis...