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It's hard not to think of Charlton Heston in The Agony and the Ecstasy : Alone on the high scaffold, paint dripping into his upturned eyes, he pushes forward with his Sisyphean task as Rex Harrison (playing Michelangelo's impatient patron, Pope Julius II) paces angrily below.
Similarly, the LAT front-pager on Iraq policy, by the estimable Robin Wright, pushes down to the 14th paragraph the claim that Washington is now "almost irrevocably involved" until the objective of toppling Saddam is achieved.
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.
It's infused with a mournful 1950s-era Existentialism, and Paz's French influence pushes him into abstraction.
Also, the move in Washington to create new prescription coverage for Medicare recipients threatens to lower drug prices, which in turn pushes firms to produce newer drugs with higher margins, which requires more research money and new technology.