Word: credited
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...strains of dangerous bacteria that resist antibiotics. Often, the DNA is inserted into the E. coli bacteria, which live in the human gut, but if these hybrid organism were to escape from the laboratory, they could enter the human body and resist its normal immunological defenses. To their credit, scientists engaged in this research were the first to sound the alarm in the early '70s. Lear traces the chain of events that led to regulation of DNA research based upon these scientists' recommendations, and documents these scientists' retreat from the principle of DNA research regulation. Lear is at his best...
...People of the Lake: Mankind and Its Beginnings (Leakey's second and latest book), which focuses on the Koobi Fora finds, is a credit to Leakey. Leakey and co-author Roger Lewin write intelligent, provocative prose and present their amazing discoveries to readers with just the right combination of lucidity and academic integrity...
...Washington-based retail business, for example, failed with $150,000 in back orders. "People just didn't want to pay until the tax credit was approved," Dow said...
There is no indication that Harvard students will get tuition credit for stocking up on alternative power sources, but students who believe that "small is beautiful" can put that belief into practice by buying firewood for their fireplaces at the store at $3.50 a bundle...
...Credit for the defense's success must go to Harvard coach Leo Fanning. "He really mixed up the defensive alignments so that Dartmouth didn't know what to throw at us," echoed numerous jubilant gridders afterwards...