Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good as Lear's book is in documenting the political maneuverings, it nevertheless suffers from certain organizational and stylistic flaws. Although his prose is generally smooth and well-crafted, he occasionally goes into inordinate scientific detail that would discourage all but the most intrepid layman from finishing his book...
Lear pegs 1971 as the year when scientists began to question the safety of certain kinds of recombinant DNA research. As a result of a few scientists' conscientious probing, researchers gathered for a series of conferences in which they discussed the potential hazards of gene-splicing. Slowly and increasingly acrimoniously,they drew up guidelines recommending a voluntary moratorium on certain kinds of recombinant DNA research and setting up standards for physical and biological safety precautions for investigators to observe in different categories of experiments. These conferences proved the basis for the 1976 National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines. Since...
Over 40 Philosophy concentrators formed a group Thursday night to discuss the reassignment of section leaders and the alteration of certain course offerings in the department...
Chief Tonis learned about the tunnels the hard way. Back in 1939. Tonis was an FBI agent assigned to tail a certain German spy in the U.S. Upon arriving in South Station, the suspect checked in at a Boston hotel and took a cab to Harvard, where he entered one of the River Houses. In the evening, he returned to his hotel. The next day he repeated his visit to Cambridge, entering the same House. But he never came...
Kelly said that certain changes have not harmed law enforcement. "When the Miranda decision was made, it was felt to be catastrophic. But law enforcement wasn't hurt, and it put police work on a professional plane...