Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used barrier contraceptives had 40% less risk of tubal infertility. The explanation, suggests one of the report's authors, Harvard Epidemiologist Marlene Goldman, is that these contraceptives prevent any germs carried in the semen from reaching the upper genital tract and causing pelvic inflammatory disease, the most common cause of tubal infertility. Concluded Willard Cates, of the Centers for Disease Control, in an accompanying editorial:"The ulimate educational message is that barrier methods ((ideally used with spermicides)) will not only prevent unplanned pregnancy in the short run but also preserve desired fertility in the future...
...Purdue University biologist who until recently was building models of viruses by laboriously fastening together hundreds of brass fittings taps away at a computer keyboard. When he is done, he has created on the screen an image of rhinovirus 14 (one of some 113 varieties responsible for the common cold) that can be turned and viewed in three dimensions. Rhinovirus 14 thus becomes the first animal virus of any kind to have its full portrait drawn...
...their friends over to "look at the goofy guys standing in front of the mailbox." Other people were nasty. They felt threatened by having their personal space violated, and even called us assholes. They were probably right. Still others were confused. "What's wrong with the mailbox?" was a common response. So was "what the hell are you idiots doing here...
Carol G. Zaleski, who has served as assistant head tutor for the religion department and has a been a member of the Lowell House senior common room for more than a year, will replace current Lowell Senior Tutor Jack...
...current experiments, almost everyone agrees, do not pose any such threat. They involve a modest bit of genetic engineering on the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae, a common parasite that lives on the bark and leaves of many plants. The bacterium produces a protein that serves as a seed for the formation of ice crystals when the temperature drops below 32 degrees F. By snipping the seed-making gene from the DNA of the microbe, Berkeley Plant Pathologists Steven Lindow and Nickolas Panopoulos created a mutant form of P. syringae that does not promote frost. They call their new microbe "ice- minus...