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The authors found a surprising amount of correlated adaptation to "moderate" temperatures surrounding 37°C, suggesting that selection at this temperature had favored mutations that also improved performance at (presumably) physiologically similar temperatures.
This adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 1846 swashbuckler "transforms its august stars [Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, Gabriel Byrne, Gérard Depardieu, and John Malkovich] into something akin to a manic dinner-theater troupe" ( Slate 's David Edelstein).
While the adaptation is respectful, it "mostly misses the humor, lyricism and emotional charge of Frank McCourt's magical and magnificent memoir" and unfortunately becomes "something resembling a conventional tale of a gifted young man's struggle to lift himself out of oppressive circumstances" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ). The harshest complaint: It's just "two hours and 20 minutes of beautifully photographed rain, mud, blood, lice, vomit, dead babies, and whining" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The more upbeat take: The movie is "a thinner version of the novel, but you still get a drama that has you laughing and brokenhearted" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an excerpt from the book.)
Now that Schiff has become a big-deal screenwriter (his Lolita generated scads of ink and his adaptation of True Crime , directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, opens next week), it's as if those last 17 years didn't happen.
The adaptation of retroviral vectors for gene delivery into lymphocytes has gained favor recently [ 1 2 ] , but has several features that limit its use.
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