Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the accusations of rudeness being made against the owners of cellular telephones are often unfair. "They're just showing off," is the charge hurled at people who use their cell phones to do what everybody else is legitimately doing--talking on the bus, making calls from the sidewalk, chatting while driving a car. An expensive telephone might be considered a status symbol--but so are a lot of other things that are less obviously useful yet don't arouse public ire. It should be recognized that the cell phone is just a tool. What determines rudeness...
Like a parent whose toddler is wobbling eagerly toward a wedding cake, etiquette can move fast when it has to. People think they can get away with using their cellular telephones at any time or place they choose, confident that etiquette is too befuddled by this wondrous novelty to set limits...
Huber stressed the importance of using the structures of proteins to determine their function in cellular processes...
...should we understand the biology [and] the biochemistry without knowing the structure of the molecules that carry out those jobs that form cellular aggregates that carry out the enzymatic functions?" Huber asked...
Past students have also devised crafty ways to cheat on biology exams, requiring instructors in the department to introduce deterrents, says Professor William M. Gelbart, head tutor of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology...