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...varies from tissue to tissue. The genes closest to the matrix are those that a particular cell intends to have turned on. Genes meant to stay inactive are much farther away. The conclusion is inescapable: a mutation in a gene that changes the architecture of the nuclear matrix could wreak havoc by turning the wrong genes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stopping Cancer in Its Tracks | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...enough that you wreak havoc in your own environment--wherever that may be? Must you corrupt this University's hallowed temple of knowledge, Widener Library? Hary Elkins is surely rolling in his watery grave. Please, at least have the courtesy to be quiet so that you and your study partner do not disturb others who want to research in peace. I am worried about you, Captain. Your "extracurriculars" must be taking time away from your studies. Please accept some responsibility. For instance, I see that you did not send a photo of yourself, like I had asked you last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kiss Me, I'm Irish | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...course, many underage drinkers in Wisconsin (and Massachusetts) will continue to have their fun--and wreak their havoc--whether or not states lower the legal drinking...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: Teen Drinking is Dangerous | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

Some people, inevitably, will wonder what the Booker judges could possibly have been thinking. For Paddy Clarke, while intermittently funny, fresh and affecting, is ultimately frustrating. Its hero serves as its narrator, a 10- year-old boy trying, with his gang of schoolmates and other pals, to wreak mischief in their Dublin neighborhood, circa the mid-1960s. Graffiti, whether spray-painted or gouged in wet cement, constitute a major offensive strategy. Another is invading forbidden turf, such as walled-off backyards, where the prospect of a pair of ladies' knickers on a clothesline drives the lads into a frenzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Mischief in Dublin | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...Civil Liberties Union. But it is his nomination to the Pentagon's newly created position in charge of peacekeeping operations abroad that has turned him into an object lesson in the way a band of conservative Congressmen, bureaucrats and ideological crusaders are using the Senate's confirmation process to wreak havoc with President Clinton's effort to create a new policymaking vanguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gumming Up the Works | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

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