Word: breedings
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...general, his colleagues say, Carrington epitomizes the old school of patrician, moderate Toryism. His working relationship with Thatcher, a leader of a new Tory breed, as intent on fiscal austerity and hard-line anti-Soviet rhetoric as it is distrustful of the aristocracy, therefore came as a surprise to many. Carrington, in the words of Lowell House Government Tutor and Harkness Fellow Andrew Sullivan, "is the archetypal Tory `wet,'" the standard characterization for those in opposition to Thatcher's tight-fisted domestic policy...
Paradox though it was, the Crimson became aplace to belong. An inexplicable addiction kept meat a place where people were cold, seriousnessstifling and hard work prevalent; Crimson editorsand executives were indeed a breed untothemselves, regenerated each year through compsand production of a daily newspaper. I began tofunction within an environment which forced me tointeract with people who were quite different frommy friends outside. Here I learned again that Iwas quiet, hardworking, and easily intimidated.For three and a half years, I worked at theCrimson. I had to look elsewhere for my identity...
...digestive tract or caused ulcers. Says James Coe, program manager for the Marine Entanglement Research Program at the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle: "We have found everything from toy soldiers to pens, fishing bobbers and poker chips in the birds' stomachs." A study of wedge-tailed shearwaters, which breed on central Pacific islands, showed that 60% of the adults surveyed had ingested plastic. Even sea gulls, which are able to disgorge disagreeable food, are not immune to the plastic threat. They have been strangled by six-pack yokes...
There may be more brainpower per square foot in Massachusetts than in any other state. Within 200 miles of Boston, the Athens of America, are some 250 colleges. Half of the state's 2,000 yearly Ph.D.s remain there. Harvard and M.I.T. are intellectual nation-states that attract and breed talent. An informal estimate of the number of companies started by M.I.T. graduates easily reaches 1,000. Today, M.I.T.'s artificial intelligence laboratory is considered the prime incubator for this new technology, which economists estimate will become a billion-dollar industry by the end of the decade. "The selling...
However, injecting people with a virus similar to AIDS is not the only kind of vaccine possible. In another approach, doctors insert part of the HTLV-III virus, like the virus' envelope or shell, onto the harmless portion of another virus. When that new half-breed virus grows, will have the HTLV-III shell without the virus' deadly properties. Then the human immune system may be able to develop protective antibodies to the AIDS virus by coming into contact with a harmless, "dummy" AIDS virus created...