Word: armes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Limonta became director of the brand-new CIGB, which quickly grew into a sprawling research dynamo, one of more than two dozen Cuban institutes dedicated to the biological sciences. The center--along with its marketing arm, a quasi-corporate entity called Heber Biotec--now employs more than 1,200 technicians and scientists. "We don't have an institute of this size devoted to biotechnology in all Australia," marvels Peter Willadsen, a molecular biologist who directs a center on animal diseases in Indooroopilly, Australia...
Gregarious and invariably rumpled, Deutch, 57, appears capable of literally getting his arms around any problem. A bear of a man, 6 ft. 3 in. tall, he dominates almost any room he walks into, wrapping his thick arm around a shoulder to cajole or bully a colleague into giving him what he wants. Given virtual carte blanche by the White House to reform the agency, he has cultivated the congressional intelligence committees that are also demanding change. But most important have been his ties with the Defense Department...
...chiseled formality of the 12th century Emperor Hui Tsung's script, with its flicking exactness of stroke; at the other, the blithely spontaneous notation of the 8th century Zen Buddhist monk Huai-su, who liked to work when drunk on rice wine. And somewhere in between is the long-arm forehand and backhand of the 16th century scholar-artist Chu Yun-ming, whose fierce cursive brush writing came to be revered as an example of moral probity in itself...
...unavailability of freshman Andrew Duffell (2-1, 6.23) will make things even more difficult for the Crimson pitching staff. Duffell tossed nine full innings of four-hit relief in the MIT game on Wednesday, a feat from which his arm is still recovering...
...Here's a shot in the arm for CANCER THERAPY. A vaccine shown to eradicate tumors in rats is soon to be tested in humans. Genetically engineered cells in the vaccine dismantle a kind of biological disguise that cancer cells generally use to thwart the immune system...