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...argument that Evita was merely a filter or receptacle for the struggles and dreams of the masses pervades Santa Evita, making the tale of her corpse's adventures richly ironic. Several of the military officers and other characters responsible for the transport or maintenance of her body fall deeply in love with her, until their obsession controls their lives. They speak of Evita as if she were living, and many believe that she has mystical powers. They avoid saying her name, instead referring to her as "Person," "the Deceased," or "that woman." She is both a curse and blessing...
...Socialist governments, of course, including the present one. But 1996 was their wake-up year, as the country neared bankruptcy and more than a dozen banks were closed. The Socialists, led by Zhan Videnov, a former regional chief of the Communist Youth, more than doubled energy prices and public transport fares. The central bank then boosted interest rates to 300% in an attempt to choke off inflation. An editorial last week in the newspaper Trud supplied what could have served as a straight line for Marie Antoinette: "Bread is becoming a luxury...
...found that preinsulin had another precursor, prepreinsulin, which like other proteins has a signal sequence that triggers secretion or transport across the membrane...
...study published in this week's Nature, Rapoport explains that the channel can transport proteins in two directions...
...channel can be used to transport proteins backwards from the endoplasmic reticulum into the cytosol, which is, of course the retrograde direction of what proteins would normally do," Rapoport said...