Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inside the center, a large glass-fronted cage in the main building's vestibule displays 10 young crab-eating macaques Macaca Fascicularis--the most common species at the center--playing triple leapfrog and swinging on a network of pipes...
...animal research as humane as well, carefully controlled, and sparingly used at the center. He says many researchers now use tissue cultures, DNA studies, and other "alternative" methods rather than live monkeys in studies to study the effects of disease. In the 1960s, he says, it was far more common to infect a group of animals with a deadly disease to see how it progressed. "90 percent of our research really does use alternative methods," Hunt says...
...somehow at a frozen two in the morning, I didn't relish the idea of crawling across the icy floor to the frigid phone in our arctic common room. I guess deep inside I knew that the next day would bring sunny warm temperatures and with them, of course, that much-needed heat in Lowell House...
...perfect world, only one Kim would run for President of South Korea. But perfection is rarely encountered in politics, and last week the one-Kim ideal exploded into a troika of Kims united only by their common surname and their desire to become the country's chief executive in the December election...
...remaining candidates suffer from a common problem: with the exception of Jesse Jackson, they are still not well known nationally. Only Jackson has developed a large body of committed supporters willing to overlook errors and discount or ignore unfavorable publicity. The others remain vulnerable to being blown away by the first puff of bad news, as happened to Hart and Biden, and could yet occur to Dukakis. The threat is all the greater for a related reason: without large issues to distinguish the candidates, media coverage has tended to focus on personality and character, tricky subjects for campaigns whose first...