Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestinians? Israel's hard-lining Premier Menachem Begin not only continued to insist that Israel must keep the West Bank but went even further than that: he announced a tough additional condition against "foreign rule" there. By that he meant that Jerusalem would not even go along with creation of a West Bank Palestinian enclave under Jordanian sovereignty-a formula that Begin's Labor predecessors had been prepared to accept...
...bill sponsored by Senator Edward Kennedy proposes the creation of an eleven-member federal commission to control all recombinant DNA experiments, and an elaborate system of fines and inspections. Representative Paul Rogers' plan counts on local "biohazard committees" to enforce safety standards, under the supervision of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...bacteria taken from a human patient at Stanford University in 1922, altered genetically during its life in the labs; among other changes, it can no longer colonize in human or animal intestinal tracts. Biologist H. William Smith, an expert on infectious diseases in animals, suggests that the deliberate creation of an infectious E. coli K-12 would require 20 years. University of Alabama Geneticist Roy Curtiss III has developed an even more feeble strain. Back in 1974, Curtiss urged a halt to experiments designed to create new combinations of DNA in E. coli. Now Curtiss says research with...
Young Colin Saville does well in his "eleven-plus" exam, wins the scholarship to a prestigious grammar school and is considered to be university material. The time is just after World War II, and the English educational system has begun its shift from the old-boy network to the creation of a meritocracy. Like D.H. Lawrence's characters in Sons and Lovers, Colin's father is abraded by a life in the coal pits, and his mother by poverty and sickness, but there seems to be no limit to what the boy can achieve...
Berry admits that his first trekkies would not know where they might emerge or if they would ever get back. One possibility: they could construct a parallel black hole at their destination to bring them home. He also seems unconcerned about another hazard: his creation might explode in a supernova, spraying its builders with deadly radiation. Still, the author writes with such refreshing faith in science's ability to conquer all obstacles of time and space that even skeptics may be willing to suspend disbelief and join him in this dazzling armchair journey across the cosmos. Here, at least...