Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exciting enough. About five years ago, California scientists learned how to combine genes from different organisms, regardless of how low or high they are on the evolutionary scale. Though the researchers added only one or two new genes to a bacterium's collection of thousands of genes, the creation of such hybrid molecules was a stunning feat. The accomplishment seemed to breach one of nature's more inviolable barriers. Even primates as closely related as gorilla and man are so different genetically that they cannot produce offspring. Thus it was not size alone that made King Kong...
...only to continue the ban on the worrisome experiments, but also to press NIH to establish levels of safety that should be required for different experiments. In addition, they decided that precautions to keep research organisms from escaping from laboratories had to include "biological containment." This required the creation of mutated strains of E. coli so disabled that they could live nowhere but in a test tube. If they did escape their special broth and enter the atmosphere-or human gut-they would die almost instantly...
...Creation of an "early-warning system" to spot potential inflationary supply and capacity bottlenecks. The Council on Wage and Price Stability will be enlarged to handle this system...
...believe. The syndrome is a familiar one: Segal obviously fell head over heels in love with Harvard and all its money-encrusted trappings, heavy-handed traditions, and self-conscious style when he was here. He seems unable to break away from his seemingly idyllic undergraduate days. Hence the creation of the Barretts, with their wealth and generations of Harvardiana. Oliver is the consummate Harvard hero--hip, smooth, and above all rich, an amalgamation of everything Segal apparantly admires. To foist Oliver on an unsuspecting world once is bad enough; to do it twice is almost criminal. If Oliver's Story...
...tidy who enjoy right-angles and other intellectual exercises in geometry. But dreams are more often, and more interestingly, knottings of old and new--blends of what is real, what is probable, and what is only possible. Dreams are more an impression of reality than a photographic re-creation of it. They are made up of substance and shade, as are pictures in even a botanical textbook, but they are moved by spirits and fireflies and mysterious voices. You feel a breeze, you see a flashing light, you hear a noise, but then it is gone and you have...