Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turn of the millennium, but this year as every year, students will try to outwit their teaching fellows and professors, graders will appreciate wit and originality in a huge stack of bluebooks and, by February, the marks will be entered and the academic cycle will begin anew. Indeed, some things never change...
According to Bermudez, only a few of the roughly 50 students who begin Youth-Build each year end up earning the community service scholarship, and only about 50 percent earn their GEDs...
French Anderson, ever pushing the envelope, last September asked the National Institutes of Health to begin considering gene therapy in the womb for fetuses found to be afflicted with a hemoglobin deficiency that would kill them before birth and for fetuses with ADA deficiency, the "bubble boy" disorder he treated in his pioneering 1990 trial...
...notion of science as a Faustian enterprise is deeply embedded in the popular psyche, even in the relatively optimistic U.S. Technologies that tinker with the fundamentals of life can inspire anxieties enough; when increasingly wedded to the profits of Big Business, the exercise can begin to look downright alarming. Author Jeremy Rifkin, America's most persistent critic of bioengineering, wonders what is in store for a world in which evolution is treated as a plaything and life as an "invention." A case in point: the announcement in November by Advanced Cell Technology of Worcester, Mass., that it had hybridized human...
...staging an elaborately coordinated amphibious assault with deadly precision. So which military hot spot is this -- Baghdad? Tripoli? Actually, it's San Francisco. No, this is not William Cohen's preemptive strike against a reflorescence of the Summer of Love, it's a massive war games exercise scheduled to begin March 14 in the Bay Area that will involve 6,000 troops, five ships, helicopters and F-18 bombers. The maneuvers are intended to simulate warfare in a heavily populated urban area, and to "find the relevancy of the corps in the 21st century," according...