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...Guildford. However, they are innocent: "We didn't even have the bus fare to Guildford even if we had known where it was," Gerry recalls. By the time the case is brought to court, the "Guildford Four" have been joined by various members of Gerry's family. His little cousin, his old aunt, and his strung-out friends look ridiculous as they are accused of "one of the most cunning and cruel conspiracies ever to set foot on English soil...

Author: By Katherine C. Raff, | Title: British Justice Walking on Eire | 1/21/1994 | See Source »

...getting the right genes into the cells that need them. Generally, the genes must be carried by some sort of delivery vehicle, which scientists call a vector. For its vector, Anderson's team used an infectious agent known as a retrovirus -- a specialized virus containing RNA (a single-strand cousin of DNA) that has a knack for finding its way to a cell's genome and making itself at home. Retroviruses can be dangerous (HIV is the most notorious), but scientists have ways of altering them so that they don't cause disease. Still, the small risk that retroviruses used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Genetic Revolution | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

According to a report in the Boston Sunday Globe, the incident took place at 364 Rindge Ave., the home of Laverne Daniels, whose 16-year-old daughter Tasha was hosting the party. Daniels posted signs prohibiting smoking, drinking, drugs and firearms, and even had her cousin frisk the approximately 50 invitees for weapons...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: 3 Shoot in Alewife Housing Complex | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

Many names considered Jewish are in fact German, Polish or Russian in derivation. Dad didn't know in 1950 that he was trading in a contrivance that had been in the family for only 140 years or so. Later research by cousin Lewis Baratz (a roots maven) discovered that circa 1800 our antecedents in the Jewish pale went by Ben Reb Tzadik (Son of the Master Scholar). Apparently there was an earlier pedagogue in our crowd. For tax purposes or other bureaucratic reasons, the authorities in a few countries around 1810 ordered Jews to give up generic Hebrew titles. Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's in a Name? | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...area in which NT shines compared to its MS-DOS-based cousin is in multi-tasking, or the ability to run more than one program at a time...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: P.C. CORNER | 11/16/1993 | See Source »

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