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The paper pushes down to the 18th paragraph news that State's concerns included questions about the behavior of Hughes Electronics, the satellite vendor, in the consummation of prior Chinese satellite deals, in which questionable briefings to Chinese scientists and a questionable hiring of a son of a Chinese general took place.
By increasing the rate at which deleterious mutations appear, APOBEC3G pushes viruses over this edge, causing a form of ‘lethal mutagenesis’ that results in their destruction; the rate of mutation becomes so high that no genome can reproduce itself faithfully, and the population crashes.
Some critics praise the film for featuring a hard-working family instead of Hollywood's usual black "pimps and junkies" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Others say it just replaces a negative stereotype with a schmaltzy one: "[I]t pushes emotional buttons with all the subtlety of a poke in the baby-back ribs" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Photos and the like are available here.)
The Dole ad, naturally enough, pushes the latter, and links Clinton's "weakness" to the drug war.
OK, I was a puddle after some scenes, like the one where Guaspari pushes a student to get her to improve her posture and discovers that the girl is wearing a leg brace.