Word: containing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like to concentrate on a kind of experiment that is causing great concern and is restricted to quite special facilities: the so-called "shotgun" experiment with random fragments of DNA from animal cells. Two considerations seem pertinent. First, the probability that any fragment will contain a gene for a toxic product, or the genes of a tumor virus, is exceedingly low, though not zero. Second, evolutionary considerations provide an independent approach to the question. It seems exceedingly doubtful that our novel ability to introduce mammalian DNA into bacteria in the laboratory will create a truly novel class of organisms...
...more accessible, Neruda's don't bring us much closer to the poet than his verses already did. In a sense, the Memoirs are the prose form of his poetry--both are filled with nature, indignation and politics. And to a reader of Neruda's poetry, his Memoirs will contain little that...
Southerners elsewhere could hardly contain their pride in the first President from the region since 1849. Said North Carolina State Senator Harold Hardison of his friends' eagerness to attend the Inauguration: "They'll be there just as sure as a cat's got climbing gear." Added Shelby Smith, a retired building contractor in Helen, Ga.: "It's been a long dry spell for us, and we feel a little like farmers when they get that first whiff of needed rain...
...Brazil's production plunged from 22.2 million bags of coffee in the 1975-76 crop year to 6.4 million bags last year, a 70% drop, while world demand remained about the same. It will take until 1979 to regrow the trees into yielders of the red berries that contain green coffee beans...
Daley's Chicago worked for dozens of his cronies who got rich off knowing in advance which land would soon contain expressways, public buildings, etc. It didn't work so well for his close friends now behind bars, but there are plenty more for whom Chicago is still working just fine...