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...honest," Isner confesses, "no one really understands how it gets there." But unlike most other therapeutic genes, which must find their way into millions of cells to have a therapeutic effect, VEG-F needs to invade only relatively few. Its protein product, issuing from the cell, can act on untold numbers of surrounding, untreated cells. Quips Isner in a parody of the Marine Corps slogan, "All we're looking for are a few good cells...
...atypically peaceful scene for those dino-eat-dino days. Amid the shallow streams of a broad floodplain, scores of huge, grazing female dinosaurs were making their nests and hovering near their eggs, as their predecessors had doubtless done for ages untold. But their tranquillity was suddenly disturbed. Out of nowhere came a flood of mud and silt, scattering the lumbering beasts and burying their progeny. The lively dinosaur nursery was lost forever...
...Edith Stein's micro. Devout and ascetic in life, long a favorite of the church's conservative branch, the wartime Pontiff has been sharply criticized both by Jewish leaders and church liberals for his refusal to publicly condemn the Nazis, a "silence" that some suggest may have cost untold Jewish lives. Pius' defenders reply heatedly that his efforts to hide Jews in Italy and elsewhere saved thousands. More important, they insist that silence was the best policy--and here Pius' story intersects Stein's. According to Gumpel, Pius was about to issue his own four-page protest against the Jews...
...power of the White House in 1998 to protect our environment. His earliest surviving letter, written at age 10, mourns the cutting down of a tree, and he went on to become America's first conservationist President, responsible for five new national parks, 18 national monuments and untold millions of acres of national forest. Without a doubt, he would react toward the great swaths of farmland that are now being carbuncled over with "development" as he did when told that no law allowed him to set aside a Florida nature preserve at will...
...told the Chicago Sun-Times he wasn't part of any right-wing conspiracy -- he just wanted to get George Bush re-elected. A conservative fund-raiser and heavy contributor to Newt Gingrich's think tank, GOPAC, Smith maintains the 1992 payouts were "an independent effort to have the untold story told by the mainstream press." He certainly got his money's worth...