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Using a tiny worm as his guide, H. Robert Horvitz, who got his masters and doctorate at Harvard University in 1974, found his way to the Nobel Prize in medicine this Monday...
...During the 1970s, the three began studying the genetics of C. elegans, a tiny worm. They eventually found that a specific set of genes tells cells when to die as part of the worm?s normal growth and development - and later, those same genes were found to exist in the human genome as well. Nobody has yet turned these discoveries into treatments that can turn cell-death genes on or off at will to fight disease. But researchers are working on them. And if such precisely targeted medicines do finally become available, Horvitz, Brenner and Sulston will be largely responsible...
...Iraq is hedging in its cooperation with weapons inspectors, the new resolution must include a provision for the use of force to compel Iraqi compliance. It is vital that the resolution serve only to give Hussein one last chance; it should not allow any room for his government to worm its way into another stalemate. Should a military action eventually be required, a new, strong Security Council resolution would also bolster Bush’s case in building a coalition and gaining the necessary acquiescence and aid of critical allies both in Europe and the Arab world...
Katagiri is a 40-year-old loan collector who gets no respect. Until a human-size frog, over green tea in Katagiri's Tokyo apartment, exhorts him to engage in mortal combat with a gigantic, destructive worm kilometers beneath the city center. Katagiri doesn't think he has it in him. The frog persuades him otherwise...
...made him the West's favorite Japanese writer, has always been about such epiphanies. The 1995 Kobe earthquake looms in the background of these stories: none are actually set in Kobe, but none would have occurred without the disaster. (It is the earthquake, for instance, that awakens the worm in Super Frog Saves Tokyo.) Some of the characters in After the Quake are allowed to find true love or happy endings, but there's a wicked twist in that notion. All six stories take place after the earthquake?but before the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo three months later...