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...that Cars ever idles, for the townsfolk constitute a sweet if improbable rainbow coalition of vintage vehicles. They support the trio that will retool Lightning's egotism into community spirit: gruff Doc Hudson; lovely, sensible Sally; and--the movie's breakout car-actor--an endearingly yokelish tow truck named Mater...
...Documentaries need self-dramatizers, and being a diva was Jack Smith?s art and life. At the start of Mary Jordan?s irresistible doc Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, the artist?s reedy voice is heard intoning, "Doctor, doctor, tell me, please, / Is my brain a germ or a disease?" Late in life, he says of his work: "I was knocking myself out to make this stuff. And I always assumed that people would see this and have pity and give me a little support. [Now he shouts:] They didn...
...Charlie's logic went something like this: "I'd rather you kill me than this cancer and you might learn something in the process - so bring it on, Doc". He was a very strong, young man and figured he could take a lot more chemo, a lot more surgery and a lot more radiation than most patients. It wasn't that he had the "we're going to beat this thing, Ruff" attitude. He expected death, pretty soon, but he wanted to be the victim of medical target practice, not what the ancients called the crab...
...gene had markedly increased amounts of proliferating cells, while those that lacked the Prp(c) gene had lower amounts of cell formation, yet grew into normal adults. Lindquist said this indicates healthy prions must have a function that is not essential to the survival of the cell. A post-doc in the lab, Andrew Steele, proposed the study three years ago. Lindquist said Steele became interested in the normal function of prions after noticing high concentrations of healthy prions in stem cells. In an e-mail, Steele said the lab might now study the function of the Prp(c) gene...
...called the doctor for follow-up, but she was unavailable. Hours later, a nurse rang to say the doc was too busy to talk--and there was really nothing more she could tell us anyway. Hello? The woman to whom I had entrusted my firstborn child's physical well-being had just breezily raised the specter of his winding up like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Even if she didn't have any answers, she should have had the decency to call me back...