Word: duke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking about the values when I had to sit in the back of the bus, or when I couldn't go to Duke?" he asked...
...person and not just a stat on a piece of paper," she testified, while serving as a witness in the Nelene Fox civil suit. As Bosworth and her colleague waited outside Ossorio's office, they overheard him speaking angrily on the phone. "How did she find out about Duke? I'm going to have to call them...Maybe Gary told her. I'm going to have to call...
...advent of genetic engineering, among other things, has allowed researchers to begin breaching that natural barrier. Last spring scientists at Duke University Medical Center reported that they had successfully altered the genetic makeup of a strain of pigs. As a result, the researchers managed to fool the immune systems of three baboons into accepting pig hearts, for a short while at least. Using a similar technique, the British biotechnology company Imutran has produced a herd of 300 genetically altered swine. The company expects to transplant either a pig's heart or a liver into a human subject later this year...
...could travel with him. Other children, no surprise, found him rather strange, and he quickly stopped trying to prove otherwise. He found books more reliable than friends, particularly tales of men who brought old empires crashing down and built new ones in their place. Everyone from Ataturk to the Duke of Wellington, Abraham Lincoln to Father Flanagan, figures somewhere in his pantheon. If people don't like him, if they mock his aspirations or despise his principles, he doesn't much care--as long as they read about...
When Othello (Bashir Salahuddin) enters wearing a T-shirt, things only get a little better. Salahuddin plays the Moor consistently as a casual, soft-spoken general, but his voice is often too soft and always unemotional. As he presents his case before the Duke, Othello explains a little too calmly why Desdemona loves him. Later, when he loses his temper with the drunken Cassio (Jed Silverstein), Salahuddin gets angry too quickly and for too short a time...