Word: celling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most had entered the conclave expecting to elect another Italian, for both domestic and international political continuity. Wojtyla himself was said to be backing Florence's powerful Giovanni Benelli. As Wojtyla carried his scarred satchel into his less-than-choice assigned lodgings in the Apostolic Palace, cramped cell No. 91, he did not take his own prospects seriously. When TIME had asked him to sit for a photographic portrait before the conclave, he waved off the request with a laugh and said, "Don't worry. I'm not going to become Pope...
...prevent his book from becoming an endless series of dated skulls and cranium sizes, Leakey goes beyond the cell of paleontology. He uses his fossil discoveries to speculate about the nature of ancestral societies. Leakey pieces together his chips and bones and then tries to pinpoint social and economic attributes of the hunter-gatherer bands that once inhabited the earth...
Because the basic blueprint of human life is encoded in hundreds of thousands of genes contained in unwieldy strands of DNA in each living cell, researchers have had a hard time deciphering it. But in recent years they have been greatly aided in their work by a group of remarkable tools: enzymes that act as chemical scissors, cutting strips of DNA into precise and manageable fragments...
...discovery of these so-called restriction enzymes promises to help un ravel the mysteries of cell development, hereditary disease and cancer. It has al ready allowed scientists to analyze the chemical structure of genes and to map their sequence along DNA strands. It has ushered in a new age of genetic engineer ing by making possible the combining of genetic material from different species by the controversial recombinant " DNA technique...
...notorious Alexander VI in 1503, Cardinal Sforza succeeded in frustrating Borgia ambitions by having decrepit Cardinal Piccolomini elected Pius III. Rapacious Vatican bureaucrats, accustomed to plundering the apartments of every new Pope on the assumption that the Holy Father would need no further worldly goods, so stripped Pius' cell that he even had to buy back the bed in which he died of gout just 25 days later...