Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Veblen, who will soon begin interviewing potential board members, said he and his staff have much to do before next year's spring break trip...
Desirable genes are transferred into tissues which have been removed from patients. The altered, hardier tissue is then reinserted into the patient. If the procedure succeeds, the patients will begin to produce the new protein as though it had always been part of their...
...only company likely to hinder Amazon's attempt to become the Barnes & Noble of the Web, however, is Barnes & Noble itself. In January the industry goliath announced plans to begin selling its estimated 1 million titles via America Online and a Website. Amazon countered by more than doubling its stock, to 2.5 million (including, a bit disingenuously, a million out-of-print books it will try to locate for you, an offer B&N quickly matched), and slashing prices up to 40% to surpass the bookstore's 30% hardcover discount...
...Kooyman of the University of California at San Diego has studied emperor penguins, beguiling flightless birds that are dependent on Antarctic sea ice. The penguins need 255 days of sea ice in order to complete the cycle from egg laying to the stage when fledglings are hardy enough to begin their wanderings through the southern ocean. Typically, the young birds jump into the water only two weeks or so before the ice breaks up. This year, says Kooyman, the ice near Franklin Island broke up in mid-December, two weeks before the fledglings were ready to embark, probably dooming...
...begin the day with fiction instead of the news had a transforming effect on the news. When 9 o'clock came, force of habit drew me to the shop where the papers arrive, and for the time it took to read them, I would lay aside, say, Wolff's The Rich Brother, a brooding short story about two brothers joined by fear and hatred, or O'Nan's novel The Names of the Dead, about a man who cannot leave the Vietnam War behind...