Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another ewe, South Korean researchers are claiming that the answer is yes. Using a technique already performed in Hawaii on mice, two Korean scientists have conducted what may be the first cloning of a human embryo. They implanted genetic material from a 30-year-old woman into an egg cell, and then let that cell divide twice before stopping the experiment to steer clear of a Korean ban on experimentation with more fully developed embryos. "What this represents is a refinement of the Hawaii technique," says TIME science reporter Dick Thompson...
...enough to prove that an actual cloning has taken place. "One crucial moment is the 16-cell point. Cells divide automatically up to four cells, but it's only after they have divided to 16 that you have a pretty good chance that it's going to work," says Thompson. Because the Koreans stopped the experiment well before that point, it's not clear that the embryo would have grown into a full-fledged human. Still, like it or not, several genetically identical cats have just been...
...office tower in a Nairobi park. And in 1991 her activism became a political force when she helped start an opposition group called the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy. Once she was teargassed and clubbed unconscious by police. Another time she was arrested and put in a jail cell overnight with no mattress. Always her popularity and idealism have stayed intact...
...voice network has an important job, the General Accounting Office pointed out in a report released last week. It's designed "to enable commanders to discuss whether a ballistic-missile launch threatens North America and, if so, to determine the appropriate retaliatory response." But, like your first cell phone, the system is a bit clunky. The GAO says recent tests show that "the National Command Authorities and the chief military commanders would be unable to communicate by voice in a timely and intelligible manner...
...CELL PHONE The first cellular phone was developed in 1973 by Martin Cooper at Motorola, and a test of 1,000 such phones followed in Chicago. The Federal Communications Commission authorized cellular service in 1982, and we haven't shut up since. More than a third of all households in the U.S. subscribe...