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...first oncogene known to exist inside animal and human cells was discovered in 1976 by Drs. J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus of the University of California at San Francisco. Since then, scientists have found more than 50, some of which appear to be more important than others in human cancers. Mutations in the RAS oncogene, for instance, are believed to play a role in a majority of pancreatic and colon cancers, and some lung cancers as well. Mutations in other oncogenes have been linked to leukemia and the most lethal forms of breast and ovarian cancer...
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There seem to be fresh winds blowing across the church. Things thought to be impossible a short time ago are coming to be," preached Barbara Harris in the fall of 1988. She was referring to her own imminent consecration as the first woman bishop in the history of the Episcopal Church. But traditionalists weren't upset just about Harris' sex. She also happened to be a black, non- college-educated divorcee with some fairly radical beliefs. While still a laywoman, Harris led the procession at the 1974 protest ritual in which her church's first women priests were illicitly ordained...
...Bishops from India, Africa and particularly the newly liberated churches of Eastern Europe pointed out that their pressing problem is less the barrier of celibacy than how to house would-be priests and where to find the books and teachers to train them. "Do not make the mistake of thinking that our people in Africa do not know what celibacy is and would rather have their priests married," Bishop Norbert Wendelin Mtega of Tanzania told the synod. "They cannot imagine a Catholic priest who is married...
...bishops could point to small signs of success: the overall seminary dropout rate has declined from 30% in the 1960s to 10%. But even if the vocational decline continues, the hierarchy has an answer: in recent years, lay people have taken over many of the tasks of running their parishes. "In that vision of the church, you don't need as many priests," said one bishop. That is cold comfort to Catholics who lack a priest to say Sunday Mass, but it is a vision that the bishops are determined to keep in case their gamble fails...