Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vital importance to many diabetics. Last week scientists at the University of California in San Francisco reported that they had taken an important first step toward that goal. Using the bold new technology, they not only gave a bacterium potential insulin-making capability but also got the bug to reproduce millions of precise carbon copies of itself, all with the same new characteristic...
...hormone, which the body needs to turn sugar into energy, drug companies seeking alternative sources have pinned some of their hopes on recombinant DNA technology. By inserting the human insulin gene into the DNA of the common intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli, they could, in theory, endow the bug with the capacity to make human insulin...
...hoped to deal with the war when he became President? Said he: "The most popular position to take on Viet Nam ... was to bug out and blame it on Johnson and Kennedy." But he did not take this easy way because "Kennedy and Johnson were right in going into Viet Nam." Nixon's only regret about his own tactics, he said, was that "I didn't act stronger sooner." Had the U.S. employed saturation bombing of civilian centers in Southeast Asia, he went on, the war would have ended "in a tragic way, but much, much sooner...
...right into the room. Later, in one of the movie's funniest scenes, Artoo and the wookie play a variant of chess with holographic figures. Instead of a bishop capturing a knight, a little dinosaur jumps a small, ectoplasmic BEM (as sci-fi fans call bug-eyed monsters) and proceeds to devour him. (Losing makes wookies so dyspeptic that Artoo is sagely counseled to let Chewjbacca win.) All science fiction movies these days are measured against Stanley Kubrick's monumental 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). But even by that standard, Star Wars is tops. To work...
...stirred up recently. The Saccharin Question has replaced the Cyclamate Debate, but the same anxieties over cholesterol count, caloric content and carcinogenic tendencies are being expressed. Widespread concern about our food and the need for that concern is evident in past and continuing controversies over mercury in fish, bug spray on tomatoes, too much sugar in baby food, bacterial contamination in canned and frozen foods, red dye in anything. The big swing towards "health foods" is an indicator of this consumer anxiety--every supermarket has its granola, three times as costly as the oatmeal on the next shelf. Good eating...