Word: cloning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fine shopping day not long ago, I noticed something unusual as I carried out my Twinkie-check ritual. Drake's Cakes, a kosher kid's chemical cake heaven, had a Twinkie clone on the rack. My heart skipped a beat, a tear came to my eye. I thought I heard the Star Spangled Banner playing off in the distance. I could finally complete the immigrant experience embarked upon by my great-grandfather so many years ago when he decided that he and his children after him were to be Americans. True Americans. The "Twinkie" would be the final piece...
...insist that computers work together in networks, regardless of the make or model. That has harmed Apple, since its operating software is not the most compatible. But it has been no blessing for IBM either, because its operating system is so common that customers often prefer to buy clone machines that work like IBM's but cost less. Customers have become more concerned about price than brand names or even high performance. That has turned things upside down for IBM and Apple, which find themselves struggling to make their products less distinctive and more compatible with their other rivals. Apple...
Lawson's choices have calmed fears that she is about to make drastic changes in PBS's direction. Yet some PBS veterans are wary of her plans for sitcoms and other popular programming formats, contending that the quest for bigger audiences will turn PBS into a clone of the commercial networks. "A perfect program to me," she responds, "is one where the viewer never questions the value or importance. But it's also engaging and compelling, so that you feel you have to watch it. Entertainment and intelligence can live well together." Just how well, and how often, Lawson...
...dour; a character who seems to speak for him, a mortally wounded expert in chaos theory, crabs at modern science for its narrow, intrusive brilliance and its broad lack of common sense. Yes, yes, the reader agrees without much enthusiasm. Thinking all the while: if you really could clone a tyrannosaur, wouldn't it be worth it, just to hear the thing roar...
...switching instead to Maniac Mansion, a family sitcom that is not so much off the wall as out of this world. Dad is a mishap-prone inventor whose botched experiments have turned his brother-in-law into a housefly and his four-year-old son into a 250-lb. clone of Benjy in The Sound and the Fury. We learn these things in the show's 10th-anniversary special -- a nostalgia trip that takes place, oddly, on the program's first episode. Weirdest of all, the series is running, virtually unnoticed, on cable's Family Channel, a new incarnation...