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| Prion warning (Guardian Unlimited) |
| The titular family is a peripheral presence here; in truth (and as he has no qualms in stating) DT Max's concern is prion diseases. Prions, named in the Eighties by Stanley Prusiner, who won a Nobel Prize for his work, are proteins, ones that, startlingly, can replicate themselves. |
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| Self and the city (Guardian Unlimited) |
| This ambitious collection of essays is the result of a series of seminars at Princeton University aimed at developing fresh thinking about the city as a dynamic physical space that "shapes, and is shaped by, power, economy, culture and society". |
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