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...stoning scene would stir the yarmulke off the most orthodox Jew's head. More telling is a five-minute satire of the entire history of the early Christian church. Having chosen Brian as the true messiah at a sort of marketplace for prophets, several followers start interpreting his actions. Within minutes they have split into different sects, unable to agree why Brian has left a sandal behind. It's an extremely funny microcosmic version of the revisionism and distortion that twists the words and deeds of any cult leader...
Some details, including the precise size of the wage increase, were withheld until the settlement could be reviewed by officers of the GM locals, meeting in Detroit this week. A local-by-local ratification vote by all members should be completed within ten days...
...assure that their cancers will be detected early and treated. But now, for one such family, all that is changed. At Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, doctors for the first time have discovered an inherited chromosomal defect that seems to be a marker of cancer within a family...
...still unclear. People with renal cancer do not necessarily have the chromosomal switch, and those with the translocation do not always develop cancer. The doctors have taken cells from family members and frozen them, preserving them for the day when they have more sophisticated techniques for studying individual genes within the chromosomes. But until then they will be at a loss to explain exactly why a translocation can make a family cancer prone. Says Brown: "What we found may be a breakthrough. The fact is we don't know...
DIED. Ayatullah Mahmoud Taleghani, 74, an advocate of moderation within the Iranian theocracy, revealed upon his death to have been chairman of the secretive Revolutionary Council, Iran's chief ruling body; of a heart attack; in Tehran. Taleghani was the first religious leader to pronounce the monarchy "illegal" and the first to be arrested for doing so. He remained in Iran throughout the Pahlavi reign, spending a dozen years in prison, but also shaping the groundswell movement that brought the exiled Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to power. Known for his tolerance, Taleghani served as Khomeini's mediator in disputes...