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...surrounding cytoplasm intact. Then they placed the egg next to the nucleus of a quiescent donor cell and applied gentle pulses of electricity. These pulses prompted the egg to accept the new nucleus--and all the DNA it contained--as though it were its own. They also triggered a burst of biochemical activity, jump-starting the process of cell division. A week later, the embryo that had already started growing into Dolly was implanted in the uterus of a surrogate...
...November 1995, a pipe burst in the main reading room of Yale University's Sterling Library, its main stacks...
...course, this year's Crimson could conceivably get hot at just the right time, make it to Lake Placid, even make it to Milwaukee and the NCAA Final Four. Lots of people seem to believe that this team has a lot of talent which is just waiting to burst forth at the appropriate moment...
John Makin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, expects the bulls to keep stomping because of what he calls "America's amazing self-regulating economy." Makin notes that each time business activity has heated up recently, bond buyers, worried about a new burst of inflation, have driven interest rates higher. That has taken pressure off the Federal Reserve to jack up the rates it controls, which could make the stock market tumble. Then, with the economy cooling and fears receding of Fed tightening, investors have started pouring money into stocks again...
...life: the night the Nazi soldiers came to his parents' house in their Polish village. Jakob, then seven, was still small enough to fit into the hiding place behind a wall, but his sister Bella, 15, was not. The aging poet remembers what happened next with understated anguish: "The burst door. Wood ripped from hinges, cracking like ice under the shouts. Noises never heard before, torn from my father's mouth. Then silence. My mother had been sewing a button on my shirt. She kept her buttons in a chipped saucer. I heard the rim of the saucer in circles...