Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: Don't have a cow -? not yet, anyway. The experiment reported in Thursday's New York Times, in which a Massachusetts biotech firm fused a human cell with a cow cell to create that primeval soup known as stem cells (which can be transformed into either human tissue or a clone of its donor), has been greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism by observers who suggest the Times has been duped. "They haven't done the science," says TIME science editor Phillip Elmer-DeWitt. "They haven't reproduced it. It isn't science until...
...They could have given a little more assurance as to what was being done here," said Dr. John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins -? one of the authors of a successful study released last week in which stem cells were created from dead human embryos. ACT's experiment is raising eyebrows because cows and humans took separate evolutionary paths more than 10 million years ago; the two cell nuclei are so different that they're unlikely to stick together for long. "There's no reason to believe this thing would get past a few cell divisions," says Elmer-DeWitt...
...points of cell phones is that you and your friends probably aren't always in your rooms. Who hasn't tried to coordinate complicated evening plans when lots of people are out on the town? "Look, I'll leave a message on your machine after dinner, and you leave on one mine saying where you guys went, and wait for me until 12, but if we miss each other I'll call Julie, and change her incoming message for me or I'll check my e-mail too, if I can." But somebody forgets a crucial step and plans change...
...course, the assumption is that these new toys, even if terribly useful for coordinating social lives and being accessible, are very expensive. But cell phones are practically competitive with the less-than-excellent Harvard phone plan. With Sprint PCS, you can get 700 minutes of calling time a month within a local calling area for $35 a month, and for $50 a month you can get 500 minutes free nationwide. So for the same amount I pay the Harvard Telephone Office, or even less, I can have a spiffy little toy, and Mom can reach me all the time...
...popping up all over the place is that it works as a pyramid scheme, just like blue-green algae. If you get someone to sign up on your plan, you get rebates off your bills. He likens it to the spread of a virulent disease. But there are enough cell phone owners for the moment and many more eager perspectives to participate in the frenzy. I'm going to bide my time. And concentrate on learning how to check my messages from outside my room...