Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largest share of the vote in June's national elections. But subsequently the former housewife failed to reach out to other parties to guarantee herself a majority in the assembly. Muslim parties began to rail against the prospect of having a female President. Wahid and Megawati had been very close in the reformist campaign last year, but even he came to resent her aloofness after the June polls: a mobile phone he carried whose number only she knew "rarely rang," according to one of his aides...
With tons of soft tissue on ice, geneticists have no shortage of mammoth DNA to play out their fantasy: tweeze a bit of it out, insert it into the ovum of an elephant--a close living cousin--and implant the embryo in the elephant's womb. Before long, a woolly bundle should appear...
Alternatively, scientists may try to harvest frozen sperm--provided the mammoth is indeed male--and fertilize a female elephant. Close as the thawed father may be, however, he may not be close enough to produce offspring. "Life isn't something you start and stop like a record," says Ward Wheeler, another biologist at the museum. "It has to go on in continuum...
...stocked refrigerator and explaining a lunch-trading Ponzi scheme she invented in third grade to score extra sandwiches. Basically she blames her jones for carbs as the cause of her unhappy past. "They have actually located what they call the carbohydrate-craving gene, which is on chromosome number 11, close to the alcoholism gene and the cocaine-addiction gene," she says, before taking a brief talking break to join her husband in a mating dance that involves methodically removing the croutons from their chicken Caesar salad. Though her science may be suspect, her earnestness is not. During the meal...
...sunlit summer afternoons at the ball park. In the American League, the Boston Red Sox's lightning comeback against the Cleveland Indians in the first round was more histrionic than their testy five-game loss to the hated Yankees, but not remotely as dramatic. No script in baseball comes close to the 80 years of back story that informs all Yankee-Red Sox encounters...