Word: dna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entire process of achievement took a major turn toward today's exuberant state in the 1950s. The demonstration of the double-helix structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953 was the long-awaited key that opened the door to a rich trove of fundamental biological knowledge. In time this discovery did nothing less than bring to light the secrets hidden within the membrane of each of the 200 different varieties into which the human body's 75 trillion cells are divided...
...currently answered might never be. In this century, however, maybe it's finally true. Once you've unleashed the power of the atom in the sands of Alamogordo, the Einsteinian interchangeability of energy and matter becomes a settled question. Big ideas like quantum physics and the structure of DNA have been established just as conclusively...
Meanwhile there are plenty of questions to address right now. Barely 10% of the matter in the universe has ever been found; the rest remains a mystery. Biologists understand the structure of DNA, but that no more reveals how life began than a schematic of a radio reveals the identity of Guglielmo Marconi. These and other big questions may yet be solved...
...worry. As always, the know-how is encoded in Ryan's dna. He works his magic against the evildoers and still finds the time to poke his head in on his sleeping children and muse that young Sally "now looked forward to the day she'd buy things from Victoria's Secret." Alas, with Ryan as her father she will probably wind up wearing camouflage-colored bras...
...where the tree trunks are all cunningly disguised as hungry sows with cubs, the thought comes to me--evil, unbidden, seductive--Why not just exterminate the pests? This, after all, is the human way: if you don't like it, rub it out, down to the last molecule of DNA. Like the smallpox virus, which spent a few millenniums cutting down humans by the tens of millions. Now we've got the last little smidgen of smallpox cornered in some test tubes, scheduled for destruction in 1999. Likewise, let a few hunters loose in the national parks with crossbows...