Word: coaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard must not be an institution which preaches humanitarian values without practicing them. Students, alumni and faculty alike should demand that Harvard express its outrage over the oppression of the Angolan people and the supporting role that Gulf plays in this oppression. To coax petty concessions from the management of Gulf Oil is no expression of outrage. What is needed is a public denunciation of Gulf's and Portugal's policies, accompanied by the sale of the University's holdings...
...help remedy this defect, the faculty at Chicago's Columbia College, a small, obscure liberal arts school, will try to coax returning veterans to put their experience on paper. The college is offering a writing course called Psychology of War: the Combat Experience. Started by Instructor Larry Heinemann, 28, who commanded an armored personnel carrier in Viet Nam, the course is open to any student with combat experience. Says Heinemann: "Only combat veterans can talk about combat, because it is so alien, so dehumanizing, so decivilizing...
Pioneered by Biologists Aaron Moscona of the University of Chicago and Malcolm Steinberg of Princeton, the technique is deceptively simple. After taking tissue from the fetus of, say, an unborn mouse, researchers coax the individual cells apart with the help of enzymes and then put the separated cells into a growth-sustaining solution. Carefully incubated, the mix soon displays extraordinary activity. The cells begin to join and organize themselves into a pattern resembling the original tissue...
...free. A Mujib imprisoned, Bhutto evidently decided, was of no real benefit to Pakistan; a Mujib dead and martyred would only have deepened the East Bengalis' hatred of their former countrymen. But a Mujib allowed to return to his rejoicing people might perhaps be used to coax Bangladesh into forming some sort of loose association with Pakistan...
...girl suffering from rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare, generally fatal cancer that attacks the body's voluntary muscles. Though the child died, the doctors did manage to take a sample of her tissue and keep it growing in culture. Suspecting that these cancer cells contained viruses, the researchers tried to coax them out of the tissue with radiation, cancer-producing chemicals and even exposure to other viruses. These efforts proved unsuccessful...