Word: begun
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Though some students have not noticed the improvements ("What new lights?" asked one first-year), others have already begun to appreciate the better-lit paths and entrances and ready access to safety phones. "When I have to walk alone at night, I feel much better having the bright lights all around," said Lisa R. Silverman...
...cash. Ickes, almost alone in the West Wing, fought the scheme. Yet when he lost the argument, Ickes executed it to the letter, keeping fund raisers on schedule in memo after memo written in a tiny, pinched scrawl. Clinton has shooed away both men. But while Morris has begun his comeback, Ickes remains in limbo...
...that once it was complete--once you figured out how to transfer the genetic schematics from an adult cell into a living ovum and keep the fragile embryo alive throughout gestation--most of your basic biological work was finished. The social and philosophical temblors it triggers, however, have merely begun...
Also waiting in the cloning lab this morning is the local industrialist. Unlike the Midwestern parents, he does not have a sick child to worry about; indeed, he has never especially cared for children. Lately, however, he has begun to feel different. With a little help from the cloning lab, he now has the opportunity to have a son who would bear not just his name and his nose and the color of his hair but every scrap of genetic coding that makes him what he is. Now that appeals to the local industrialist. In fact, if this first...
...estimate the extent of the problem, Harvard's Preservation Center has begun sample studies of many of Harvard's libraries to tell what percentage of each collection is in serious jeopardy. Though a complete study of Widener has not been completed, a sample survey of Widener's folios found that 72 percent of the works from 1800-1950 were "imbrittled"--and in grave danger of destruction...