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Growing disillusionment with antisense and ribozymes coincided with the discovery of RNAi and the realization that it was a far more potent way to silence gene expression.
Both sides of the recovered memory debate--those who "believe the children" and those who are skeptical--rehearse the same script over and over again, claiming all the while to be "breaking the silence."
But the critical silence may also represent a long-overdue recognition that Martha is, as she would say, a Good Thing.
) Could we not have profitably run a few symposiums on privacy vs. press freedom, personal reflections on the celebrity culture, editorials condemning the paparazzi ? But we decided, in the end, that a week of silence was actually a fitting tribute to Diana--or, at least, that it was the only fully satisfactory response to complaints about media exploitation.
This is significant, the paper explains, because Riady was previously suspected of paying large consulting fees to Webster Hubbell to buy Hubbell's silence on various Whitewater topics.