Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tRNA molecules, unaided, cannot form a stable linkage with messenger RNA; a ribosome is needed to hold them in place until their amino acids are assembled. While the scientists admit that their concept is "fairly speculative," they note that it can be tested in the laboratory if researchers can construct some five-nucleotide tRNA molecules. If the theory is correct, these engineered molecules, placed in a test tube with amino acids and messenger RNA, should synthesize proteins...
...absence of the needed full revamping of Harvard housing, Rosovsky should at least have made an honest effort to face the challenge presented by inadequate facilities at the Quad. Instead Fox's plan as approved by Rosovsky ignores the hard facts of Quad life. Rosovsky's agreement to construct an addition to the South House dining hall and several other token improvements in the Quad environment, such as the opening of the Currier House art and woodworking facilities to use by all the Quad's residents, are only weak palliatives designed to sell the Fox plan to Quad students...
...chemistry of air pollution. Convinced that practicing law is much more than winning a case, Ackerman confronts his students with basic, philosophical questions-e.g., "What is justice?" In his course on social justice-he is now writing a book (his fourth) on the subject-he challenges students to "construct a new political-legal order in which values of individual freedom are synthesized with a richer sense of social justice...
...MIND of the playwright is not unlike that of the master criminal. Before acting, each must construct a well-conceived, meticulous plan, tightly bound together, without any loose ends. In the case of Softly Stealing, the new Kirkland House musical, the mastermind is that of Tom Fuller '74 of Harvard's Gilbert and Sullivan fame, and the plot rocks with enough surprising twists and turns to be worthy of the reputation of Edward Sable, its notorious but good-hearted Victorian robber hero...
What important physical questions remain unanswered? Glashow points to "quark confinement"--the fact that quarks, although an amazingly successful theoretical construct, have never been seen. A good explanation of their reclusive nature is desireable...