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Despite Broadway's inept history of trying to combine theater and rock, this one works -- mostly because Paul Hipp in the title role gives one of the most kinetic, infectious and musically shrewd performances in memory. His Holly impersonation is dead-on, but even theatergoers who never saw or heard the original are likely to be won over by his galvanic confidence, charm and sweetness. Here are some of the prettiest melodies of the 1950s, from Everyday and Peggy Sue to That'll Be the Day, rendered with the authentic simplicity of a garage band. They are songs about love...
...wheels" are genes that regulate growth. Some, called oncogenes, activate the process of cell division; others, known as tumor- suppressor genes, or anti-oncogenes, turn the process off. In their normal form, both kinds of genes, working together, enable the body to perform the critical function of replacing dead or defective cells. But slight alterations in the genetic material, whether inherited or caused by environmental insult, can provoke the rampant cell division that leads to cancer...
...first hint that something was wrong came in August, when dead dolphins -- victims of pneumonia and liver damage -- began washing up on Mediterranean beaches near Valencia, Spain. But until the past few weeks, no one had | realized the extent of the disaster. When scientists from European countries began comparing notes, it suddenly became clear that some sort of epidemic was raging through the striped dolphin population of the western Mediterranean Sea. In France, where dead dolphins usually wash ashore at a rate of about 50 a year, 50 were discovered in a two-week period, and the toll in Spain...
...troops weren't enough to prevent bloodshed in the Dniester River valley, a region east of the Moldavian capital of Kishinev where ethnic Russians have also proclaimed their independence from the republic. Skirmishes between Moldavians and Russians outside the town of Dubossary reportedly left at least six dead and 30 wounded...
...that the workadaddy-housewife family is dead. Homemaking mothers married to breadwinning fathers still make up the largest category of families with young children. The "Ozzie and Harriet" arrangement represents one-third of the nation's 14.8 million families with preschool children, although dual- income households (28.8% as of 1987) are rapidly catching up. Also gaining is the single-parent family, because of divorce and the explosive rise in births to unwed mothers: up from 5% of all births in 1960 (and 22% of all black births) to 22% in 1985 (60% of blacks...