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...disease. Some of our apelike ancestors undoubtedly suffered from it; so did the dinosaurs. In fact, says Robert Weinberg, a molecular biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "it is a risk all multicellular organisms run." Each time a human cell divides, it must replicate its DNA, a biochemical manuscript some 3 billion characters long. In the course of transcribing such a lengthy document, even a skilled typist could be expected to make mistakes, and cells, like typists, occasionally err. More often than not, the mistakes they make are minor and quickly repaired by proteins that serve as miniature mechanics...
...previous writing was limited to a spiritual newsletter, but the first novel of Alabama therapist James Redfield, 43, is a phenomenon. The Celestine Prophecy, a tale of a Peruvian manuscript that unfolds the secrets of life, sold 100,000 copies in a self-published paperback. Now the Warner Books hard cover has sold an additional 450,000 in six weeks and just reached No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list...
...figure has been rather fluid. At his press conference last week, the President admitted to something like a recovered memory when he announced that he and his wife had not lost $68,900 on Whitewater, the figure they have claimed since 1992. While reading the manuscript of his late mother's forthcoming autobiography, Clinton said, he remembered taking out a loan to help her buy property and a cabin in Arkansas. When questions about Whitewater first arose during the 1992 campaign, Denver attorney James Lyons, who was hired by the Clinton campaign to examine and report on the deal...
...other views of his action in foreign policy, through the breakup of the Soviet empire and the unification of Germany, will be in the book that he and former aide Brent Scowcroft are doing. It is hard, confining work for Bush. He lifts a 350-page mound of manuscript off his small desk and notes that on top are two pages of comments and suggestions by his Knopf editors. He sighs...
...still intact would repeat what James Joyce once said to his publisher when they were arguing about a manuscript change: I appreciate that there are two sides to this issue. But I cannot be on both sides at the same time...