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...picaresque narrative might be described as a cross between the Odyssey and the Arabian Nights. Or perhaps as a shaggy-dog story about a monkey: Douglas Hara, playing the monkey spirit, often steals the show. He's a cartwheeling, somersaulting, scaffold-climbing presence who occasionally releases, in his rare moments of repose, a pleasant simian cooing. The production abounds in lovely visual effects. Blending silks and spotlights, dragons and conveyor belts, Zimmerman serves up the Court of the Jade Emperor, a courier from Buddha, a ghost-king. There are slow stretches-much of the burlesque falls flat-but the overall...
Obese con who tried to eat his way off scaffold gets reprieve...
Kinks in proteins that form the nuclear matrix -- a dynamic scaffold to which DNA is attached -- may be particularly diabolical. The reason cancer cells typically have a swollen and misshapen nucleus, believes Johns Hopkins molecular biologist Donald Coffey, is that the proteins that form the nuclear matrix are misaligned in some fashion. Inside the matrix, notes Coffey, 50,000 to 100,000 loops of DNA are coiled like a Slinky, but the length of the loops, and where they begin and end, varies from tissue to tissue. The genes closest to the matrix are those that a particular cell intends...
Even the basic concept of an integrated Europe, which had turned former foes into domestic partners, might have eventually been forced to the scaffold. In that case, Western Europe would have rejoined its Eastern neighbors in revisiting the ugly past...
...looks as if yet another scaffold of prejudice is in the early stages of dismantlement, and that's likely in the long run to make America stronger and more competitive. If the best man for a particular job happens to be a woman -- or gay, or Catholic, or black -- why waste that talent? It's inefficient. A nation whose citizens respect and get along with one another has an advantage. Good for Harvard Business School...