Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When several publishing houses reject a manuscript by a Nobel Prize-winner like Saul Bellow, it's a sure sign that something is wrong. But I was optimistic as I began reading his new novella A Theft, convinced that I would discover an overlooked masterpiece. Unfortunately, all those publishing houses were not wrong...
Nothing is wrong with the source material, which has inspired countless other stage adaptations. Franz Kafka's story of a man who one day wakes up as a giant insect has provided one of the 20th century's hallmark nightmare images. The essence of the horror is that there is no explanation for it, no deeper meaning, no instructive or redemptive metaphor: the suffering just is. In the transmutation of Gregor Samsa, the world ceases to be predictable or rational; natural and moral order disappear. Critics have found in Kafka's vision hints of everything from the Holocaust to AIDS...
...checked into a Rhode Island clinic in early February for treatment of a drinking problem. She refused to blame the defeat for her troubles. "Any crisis could have led to the drinking," she said. "The campaign was a very positive experience for me. The only thing that happened wrong was that we lost." She can only hope her next campaign turns out better...
Easier said than done. Scientists have had trouble getting such implanted genes to "turn on" in their new environment, and they worry about unforeseen consequences if the gene is inserted in the wrong place in a chromosome. Should the gene be slipped into the middle of another vital gene, for example, it might disrupt the functioning of that gene, with disastrous consequences. Also, says M.I.T. biologist Richard Mulligan, there are limitations to the viral insertion of genes. "Most genes," he explains, "are too big to fit into a retrovirus...
...different virus is introduced into NATO's logistics computers. Triggered just as the Soviet army marches into West Germany, the virus alters messages so that all allied supplies are sent to the wrong places. By the time the mistake is corrected a day or two later, key parts of NATO's defense line have collapsed...