Word: coate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Instead of mixing viral or bacterial DNA in a formula for injection, for example, scientists could insert it into soil bacteria. When the bacteria are taken up by the plant, therapeutic DNA material is stitched into the plant's genome. Another method of getting genes into plants is to coat tiny particles of tungsten or gold with foreign DNA, then shoot the particles directly into plant cells. Either way, the plant's cells start to produce whatever proteins the new genes are designed to make. Immunization begins when the plant or its fruit is eaten, prompting the body to churn...
...also succeeds as a speaker. Richard Meier managed to keep a packed auditorium of impatient, trendsetting, party hoppers thoroughly entertained for more than an hour. He kept me, with my coat and scarf still on and my bag still around my neck, squeezed between people who were tall enough to prevent my view both of Richard Meier and his slides, happily standing...
...classmates noticed he was donning shorts frequently and offered to buy him hot chocolate if he could hold out on wearing pants until December first. Not one to turn down a wager, Boyce accepted the challenge. To keep himself warmer he would wear a long, heavy, green coat over his bare legs. "I looked like a flasher," Boyce says. To this day, he admits that "once December rolls around, that's about...
...Harvard student reports that between 3:45 a.m. and 4:15 a.m. he saw another person take his leather coat...
...over my purple bra and panties and ran to the pay phones. As I raced to the camp headquarters in the rain, I saw this really fine counselor coming by with some of his campers and I stopped paying attention to the trail and tripped! When I fell, my coat flipped over my head and the hottie and a ton of little kids learned Victoria's Secret...