Word: brooked
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...creation of the first completely man-made virus, announced last week on the website of the journal Science, provoked a surprisingly heated debate among biologists. Eckard Wimmer, a microbiologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, led a team that built a copy of the polio virus by assembling more than 7,000 base pairs of DNA to match a published record of the virus's genetic code. Some scientists say the research, while an impressive technical feat, creates needless fears in a population already skittish about anthrax and smallpox. "Why did [Wimmer] pick a human disease...
DIED. JAY BERWANGER, 88, first winner of the Heisman Trophy in 1935 and first player ever drafted by the NFL; in Oak Brook, Ill. In the days before platoon football, Berwanger had to pass, block, tackle, punt, kick off, boot extra points and return punts. Unimpressed by football fame, he stored the trophy at the home of his aunt, who used it as a doorstop...
Winter officially arrived on Dec. 1 against Stony Brook, when he scored 11 points and picked up 10 rebounds for his first career double-double. Eight of those boards came in the offensive end, as Winter picked up the slack for ailing junior center Brian Sigafoos...
...rarely find this sort of balladry in dispatches from the front. Kashmir may be beautiful, but war is sickeningly ugly and any seasoned journalist knows he'll only confuse the reader if he writes: "Rebels today slaughtered 31 women and children in a savage attack beside a babbling brook in a meadow of wild irises, daisies and tiny pink anemones...
...inspired him to apply for a Fulbright grant to work at the Old Vic, one of London’s oldest theaters and legendary throughout the English-speaking world. He became an apprentice there, too, and worked on productions directed by famed Shakespeareans Lawrence Oliver, John Gielgud and Peter Brook...