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"Nuclei, proteins and lipids move with bug-like authority, slithering, gliding and twisting through 3D space. 'All of those things that you see in the animation are going on in every one of your cells in your body all the time,' says XVIVO lead animator John Liebler, who worked with company partners David Bolinsky, XVIVO’s medical director, and Mike Astrachan, the project’s production director, to blend the academic data and narrative from Harvard’s faculty into a fluid visual interpretation."

Sad, but oh so true.

Being big isn't simple. "Absolute size cannot be treated in isolation; size <I>per se</I> affects almost every aspect of an organism's biology. Indeed, the effects of size on biology are sufficiently pervasive and the study of these effects sufficiently rich in biological insight that the field has earned a name of its own: 'scaling.'"

Richard Dyer's valedictory column for <I>The Boston Globe</I> is surprisingly upbeat.

"DRM is a technical device, but it's being used in an all-embracing sense. It can't be circumvented for disabled access or preservation, and the technology doesn't expire (as traditional copyright does). In effect, it's overriding exceptions to copyright law,"said Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library.