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Every country knows it would be bombed back to the Stone Age if it attacked the U.S. We're supposed to be frightened out of our wits about the threat from Iran, which is still several years away from producing a nuclear weapon? In George Orwell's novel 1984, the state was in a perpetual war with a constantly changing enemy. Does that sound familiar...
...want to call the U.S. campaign to alter Iran's government. Ever since President Bush earlier this year appealed to Iranians to "win your own freedom," and launched a $75 million program to promote democracy in Iran, reporting from Tehran has taken on the flavor of Cold War novel. The government is obsessed with the U.S. plot for 'velvet revolution,' hardline papers declare the most innocuous people (including one sculptor) subversive, and everyone plays the 'who's really a U.S. agent?' guessing game...
...nearly nameless. The spirit with which they fight to escape their fate suggests the way other 9/11 victims might have resisted, given the chance, thereby lending a grander sense of purpose to Greengrass’ film. On the other side of the spectrum is Ken Kalfus’ new novel “A Disorder Peculiar to the Country,” (see review, B3) which portrays the acrimonious divorce between Joyce and Marshall Harriman. Although the novel has a tighter focus than “United 93,” it isn’t as myopic...
...these regions—several thousand in total. Since genes have multiple control regions, the map indicates that approximately one thousand genes are influenced by the binding of estrogen to the ER, according to a statement released by Dana-Farber. The map itself was created through a novel technique known as ChIP on chip, which involves purifying regions of the genome that take orders directly from the ER, and placing the regions on microarray chips containing the complete human genome. This process allowed researchers to contrast the two sets of genetic information, and to see which genes are expressed...
That requirement might be satisfied by the popular musical history course “First Nights”—meaning that students could conceivably graduate from Harvard without having to read a single novel, poem, or play...