Word: crystallize
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Want to peek into a crystal ball and glimpse at the future of cloning? One way might be to look at the livestock industry, the proving ground for reproductive technology. More than a decade has passed since the first calves, lambs and piglets were cloned, and yet there are no dairy herds composed of carbon-copy cows, no pigpens filled with identical sows. While copying particular strains of valuable plants such as corn and canola has become an indispensable tool of modern agriculture, cloning farm animals, feasible as it may be, has never become widespread. Even simple embryo splitting...
...only PowerPC model currently available is the 50MHz 601, whose internal crystal clock ticks 50 million times per second. The PowerPC adheres to the RISC, or Reduced Instruction Set Computing, standard, which aims at achieving high computing speed by having a small number of machine instructions that can be executed quickly...
...John O'Hanlon, the attorney listed on the documents as representing Crystal Holdings, did not return repeated phone calls yesterday. Speaking through an assistant, Meyer declined to comment...
Meanwhile, the real estate agent who manages the Crystal City buildings for Harvard, and who has been contracted to find a buyer for the property, said yesterday that he was unaware of the University's lobbying effort...
Prior to the Navy's announcement last spring,Harvard's Crystal City investment represented abright spot in an otherwise lackluster real estateportfolio...