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Gene therapy, simply defined, is the placement of beneficial genes into the cells of patients. By introducing the gene and consequently the protein it produces, says Inder Verma, a professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., "you either eliminate the defect, ameliorate the defect, slow down the progression of the disease or in some way interfere with the disease...
...give a rat's behind who Clinton is sleeping with. I voted for him to be President, not a national saint. DEAN BALAGTAS La Jolla, Calif...
...bear fruit over the next 10 years. China is far from perfect, but we should not look down on its human-rights record without recalling the U.S.'s own version of Tiananmen Square: Kent State, where the National Guard shot at students protesting the Vietnam War. SUSAN MANN La Jolla, Calif...
...Manilow is not only writing the songs, he's helping to tell the stories as well. His new musical Harmony (with book and lyrics by his frequent collaborator Bruce Sussman), at California's La Jolla Playhouse, recounts the career of the Comedian Harmonists, a popular German singing group of the '20s and '30s--composed of Jews and non-Jews--that was disbanded by the Nazis. Manilow on Hitler's Germany? Why not? "The pop-music business doesn't want to work hard; it just wants a catchy melody," says the sentimental troubadour, whose string of pop-chart-topping melodies--Mandy...
...movie, opening on Broadway next week. Jimmy Buffett has tried his hand at a musical--Don't Stop the Carnival, which had a successful run last spring in Miami--and so has Randy Newman, whose musical version of Faust is shopping for a new venue after stagings in La Jolla and Chicago. Even country star Garth Brooks is reported by Variety to be mulling a musical based on the western movie Shane...