Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team first constructed an artificial gene that could replace the instructions of a faulty gene subunit that was causing beta thalassemia. When frog egg cells were then injected with both the man-made instructor and the defective genetic material, the fault was corrected. The successful experiment, published in the British journal Nature, marks the first reported time an artificially constructed gene has been successfully used to correct a human genetic defect...
Though the GSA was correct in angrily dismissing Pattullo's outlook and circulating a petition to that effect, it erred seriously in calling for an official investigation of the academic practices of the center Pattullo heads. We have traditionally supported the GSA's quest for an official University-wide non-discrimination policy and have strongly backed the group's political activities--stances we took because gay students deserve the same civil liberties enjoyed by all others. The group's defensive call for an inquisition into the scholastic behavior of Pattullo and the center would intolerantly undermine others' liberties and academic...
First, to correct the factual errors. It is not only GSA members who are upset--alumni, professors, staff, and non-gay students are also concerned and have signed the petition Nor is it true that Pattullo was "clearly speaking as a layman" by signing his title and using the first person plural ("we would think [the discouragement of homosexuality] a good thing"), he suggests that his views reflect the policy of the Center...
...first question, then-Can a machine think?-is yes and no. A computer can certainly do some of the above. It can (or will soon be able to) transmit and receive messages, "read" typescript, recognize voices, shapes and patterns, retain facts, send reminders, "talk" or mimic speech, adjust, correct, strategize, make decisions, translate languages. And; of course, it can calculate, that being its specialty. Yet there are hundreds of kinds of thinking that computers cannot come close to. And for those merely intent on regarding the relationship of man to machine as a head-to-artificial-head competition, this fact...
...Arden Court, however, a gift to his exuberant troupe, the mix ture is perfect. Set to William Boyce's 1 8th century music, Court pulses with such energy that its precise choreography blurs. A theatrical, sinewy Elie Chaib and the cool, correct Carolyn Adams unleash steps that leave dancers in the audience breathless. All the Taylor signature movements are concentrated here: performers extend into precarious postures, arms and hands arc into orbit, leaps become new formations in midair. Few works in the current dance repertory dis play so much vibrancy and amplitude. The piece contains a message as well...