Word: celling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...central problem is finding a way to induce the bacterial cells to "express" the inserted foreign insulin genes. Researchers have to trick the cell into "reading" the added DNA along with the rest of its genes in order to translate its coded instructions for making insulin. And once the insulin is synthesized, the stage at which Gilbert's team is near, the researchers must smuggle the insulin safely out of the cell and isolate it in high quantity...
...after night, just before bedtime for federal prisoners, two Mafia triggermen walked up to the modern twelve-story Metropolitan Correction Center near New York's city hall. With unidentified inside help, locked doors opened mysteriously for the gunmen, who took up positions in the hall outside one particular cell. Tossing restlessly on the hard pallet behind the bars was chunky Carmine ("Lillo") Galante, 68, who once aspired to become the Mafia's capo di tutti capi (boss of bosses). As lights dimmed in the cell block, the two armed men settled down for a nightlong vigil. Their assignment...
...clan that after a decade of internal struggle is trying to regain other mobsters' regard-and Dellacroce's thanks-by eliminating his rival. Knowing how easily he could be assassinated in prison, Galante arranged to have his bodyguards take up their nighttime baby-sitting beside his cell...
...that force the cells to divide and differentiate; each cell develops into a strawberry plant. Farmers can thus bypass the seed and can plant well-developed shoots that grow fast and are free from viruses that attack plants germinating naturally...
...Cortázar wrote, he clipped news paper articles about political torture and other governmental outrages. He has his characters read these from day to day and paste them into a scrapbook for little Manuel, the baby son of two cell mem bers. The dispatches are photocopied in the novel so that the fictional Manuel, and all of the real Manuels who may be involved in the struggle some day, will know what their elders were fighting against. But there is no real attempt to examine the causes of right-wing terror or the pendulum swing left to counterterror...