Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toughest tricks is getting genes into the right spot in the body. Up to now, researchers have generally used benign viruses to carry the genetic material DNA into cells, but there are fears that the seemingly nonthreatening transport vehicles could sometimes cause viral infections. Last week scientists at the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they had succeeded in injecting DNA directly into human cells. Instead of riding a virus, the DNA was encased in liposomes, harmless little bubbles...
...line infamous for pickpockets. Each morning he sets off on foot at a brisk pace, crossing over cobblestones to arrive at 9 a.m. at the palazzo that once bore the title of the Roman and Universal Inquisition. Soft-spoken and courteous, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 66, looks too benign to be an inquisitor. But his Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the Roman Inquisition's latest incarnation, and as the Catholic Church's chief enforcer of dogma, the Cardinal stands in direct succession to the persecutors of Galileo and the compilers of the index of banned books. The weight...
...Right intellectuals traffic in under the free-speech cultural agency is an extra-democratic bid to entrench privileged cultural enclaves and status enclaves. hate-speech of the type that Mansfield traffics in (viz. homosexuality "undermines civilization") is not just another disinterested quest via the free-market agency for a benign pedagogical outcome...
...President's hands, but force must never be threatened unless we are really prepared to use it. You undoubtedly agree with the current conventional wisdom that we must act only when we know when and how to get out, but that makes no sense; if a situation is benign enough to permit this, it probably doesn't require intervention in the first place, and a previously announced exit date merely invites troublemakers to outwait us. You distrust the United Nations, but you should not blame it for American errors. Lately the U.N., with American acquiescence, has tended to overreach, acting...
...administration. Buell himself summed it up nicely: "I don't accept the model of the virtuous truth-seeking press confronting the hostile prevaricating establishment. To me, that's a one-sided model. It may hold in certain instances. On the other hand, it maybe the case that the benign establishment is trying to withstand the assaults of the overzealous bloodhound...