Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under the direction of a nutritionist. "The idea was the reverse of body building. Instead of adding bulk and then sculpting down, I went to 157 and added on in increments of an ounce here, an ounce there." Stallone slimmed mainly on a daily diet of ten raw egg whites and a quarter slice of burnt toast-"so it would contain no water." The daily routine: two miles running, 18 rounds of sparring, two hours of weight lifting, a nap, another run and no dinner. The result: a 47-in. chest, a 29½-in. waist. Stallone managed to achieve...
...team first constructed an artificial gene that could replace the instructions of a faulty gene subunit that was causing beta thalassemia. When frog egg cells were then injected with both the man-made instructor and the defective genetic material, the fault was corrected. The successful experiment, published in the British journal Nature, marks the first reported time an artificially constructed gene has been successfully used to correct a human genetic defect...
...hard participant the past three years. I've had the chance to appreciate the raft race at its best-and at its worst. An egg hit me in the eye this time out, and although I seem to have escaped with no lasting damage, it was scary enough to make me do some thinking about the race...
...Each egg contained a quote from such eminent philosophers as Leonardo Da Vinci and Albert Schweitzer defending the right of animals, the spokesman explained...
...spring thaw to their penultimate destination, the top of the world. Though a hazardous voyage back to Greenwich over quickly melting ice still lies ahead, Fiennes was exuberant. He rammed a slightly frozen Union Jack into the icecap, then scrambled to unpack their celebratory feast: a chocolate Easter egg and a magnum of champagne, which at that latitude was, of course, "nicely chilled...