Word: bio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faculty is really reaching out to students." Melissa Marchand says she chose Irvine over UCLA in part because 34,000-student UCLA struck her as big and impersonal. "At UCLA, a biology class could be 500 people, while here 200 people is huge," she says. "My major is bio, and I didn't want not to be able to go up to a professor with a question...
...trysts involved Sinatra and the rumor of multiple Kennedys. The unauthorized tell-alls burst with miscarriages, abortions, rest cures and frenzied press conferences announcing her desire to be left alone. Her death has been variously attributed to an accidental overdose, political necessity and a Mob hit. Her yummily lurid bio has provided fodder for everything from a failed Broadway musical to Jackie Susann's trash classics to a fictionalized portrait in Miller's play After the Fall. Marilyn's media-drenched image as a tragic dumb blond has become an American archetype, along with the Marlboro Man and the Harley...
...Within 100 years we're going to be able to bio-engineer the next generation. Those elites who can afford to resist eating bio-engineered food and will eat organic, natural foods--that very population will be bio-engineering their children for intelligence and attractiveness. They can afford to do both. Nothing is going to stop the elites from having designer children." Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society
Three years ago, Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, was announced as the principal speaker at Harvard's 345th Commencement. After asking "Harold who?," spoiled Harvard students, accustomed to being addressed by heads of state and Nobel laureates, questioned the selection of a bio medical researcher as the featured guest at their graduation. Poor Dr. Varmus was ridiculed in campus publications; his likeness even made a regular appearance in a student comic strip in this newspaper...
...Cambridge has the worst [vocational] educational program in the state. We have the richest bio-tech city in the state, and yet we don't have a bio-tech program at the high school," he says...