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...tough to tell who has the genes, since they are often camouflaged by normal ones. Last month Dr. Bert Vogelstein and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Md., reported in the journal Nature that they have figured out how to unmask the defective genes. Meanwhile, researchers at Exact Laboratories in Maynard, Mass., have developed a simple stool test that will alert your doctor to any dangerous genetic changes in your colon. The test costs $250 and may become more widely available by the end of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katie's Crusade | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...Crimson picked the perfect weekend to unmask the heart that Harvard fans had known was there all along...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tran-spotting: Now Playing, The Harvard Crimson | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

With his foe rendered momentarily senseless, Kane decided to unmask this pest...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: Charlie Hustle Gets A Body-Slam | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

...such as the opening stanza of "Poem Noir I": "I'm in a bad mood/Fit to kill/One might say/Not that I would/Just don't give me a weapon." Perhaps not quite as arresting as Raymond Chandler, but at least killing things is a reasonably noir concept. Daring browsers can unmask this dark poet brash enough to call herself Catwoman simply by clicking on the little kitty, with anticlimactic results--Catwoman's portrait displays a homely sixteen-year old posing in front of a couple of butterfly stickers. Her frumpy red dress doesn't do much to complete the Cat motif...

Author: By Adam W. Preskill, | Title: WHAT IS NOIR? | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

Although the talk was billed as a discussion of "the CIA after Ames," Inspector General Frederick P. Hitz primarily examined the investigation he led to unmask Aldrich Ames, the CIA officer turned Soviet mole who was arrested in February...

Author: By Jeff Beals, | Title: CIA Investigator Predicts More Ames Fallout | 3/22/1995 | See Source »

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