Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fotis C. Kafatos, professor of Biology and this year's chairman of Cellular and Developmental Biology, was on sabbatical at the University of Athens, where he said he found his experience very enriching...
...already been home for six weeks. The women demanded more conclusive proof. So out went a call to Dr. Chaim Brautbar, a specialist in immunogenetics. He promptly began tissue-typing all the principals: babies, parents and grandparents. In such tests, scientists search the blood for small snatches of cellular material and compare it in order to establish genetic links between individuals...
...parents and grandparents were fascinated with words and poetics, and seemed to foster that same affinity in their family. "I'm sure there's cellular truth to this, too," Carlin interjects, "but my mother's father was an original New York cop, and he had written out long-hand all of Shakespeare's written works--he quizzed my mother at the dinner table. And my mother was always careful to let us know how we could free ourselves through expression...
According to the author, this modern view of punishment arose from the Enlightenment. Its basis lay in the principles of individual regulation and social organization. New technologies were absorbed into the modern prison of cellular, open tiers and central observation towers. Such prisons became "a privileged place for experiments on men . . ." With in the jails, a new theoretical being was conceived: the correctable "delinquent," unceasingly probed by "civil servants of moral orthopaedics...
...with alcohol. But there is no drollery in his discussions of life's end. Like a man describing an old colleague, Selzer watches death at work. "You do not die all at once," observes the surgeon. "Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus . . . There are outposts where clusters of cells yet shine, besieged, little lights blinking in the advancing darkness. Doomed soldiers, they battle on. Until Death has secured the premises all to itself...