Word: carbonization
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...reason to be worried. This week the prosecution will begin showing the eight-woman, four-man jury what FBI agents found in April 1996 when they raided Kaczynski's Montana cabin. The list of exhibits includes the fully-armed bomb found at the shack, bomb-making parts and chemicals, carbon copies of the Unabomber's manifesto and taunting letters to his victims and the news media. There are also thousands of pages of diaries and journals that Kaczynski kept for more than two decades. Written in English, Spanish and sometimes code (which was deciphered using a key found...
...damage another person's property, I have to restore it. The U.S. pollutes the earth's atmosphere by producing 22% of the world's carbon-dioxide emissions. Will it repair the damage it produces? And will that even be possible? ANTONI FERNANDEZ LABORDA Barcelona...
Dolly is a carbon copy of her mother, grown from a cell taken from an adult ewe's mammary gland. The father, in a sense, is embryologist Ian Wilmut, who as a boy wanted to be a farmer but, after a summer of laboratory work, became enchanted by the magical progression of embryos from amorphous balls of cells into living entities of exquisite complexity. In the pursuit of the advancement of animal husbandry (and, by extension, human nutrition and health), he began experimenting with cloning at Scotland's Roslin Institute. His vision was the creation of genetically engineered farm animals...
...first met Grove 17 years ago while working at the Wall Street Journal. The Journal's management was proud of its resistance to technology in those days, so reporters and editors worked with manual typewriters, carbon paper and No. 2 pencils. As we were walking through the newsroom, Grove stopped to peer into the wire room, a small area overstuffed with fax and teletype machines, and exclaimed, "This is absolutely incredible equipment! In fact, it should be in the Smithsonian." That and subsequent conversations with Andy over the years taught me to appreciate his wit and his wisdom and sensitized...
...Deep Blue The IBM supercomputer decisively crushed human world-chess champion Garry Kasparov, dealing a humiliating blow to the self-esteem of carbon-based life-forms. At least until backpedaling commentators recalled the obvious: hey, the human race did build the damn thing in the first place...