Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well. As Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1965 to 1967, he drafted mental health programs and welfare reform legislation. As Massachusetts attorney general from 1967 to 1969, he handled many cases arguing the cause of civil rights. Officials sitting in meetings with Richardson are often fascinated by his endless, highly intricate doodles. They soon find that the verbal points he is making simultaneously with his doodles are just as well structured. "He speaks in paragraphs," says an admiring friend...
...Endless Variety. At the University of Wisconsin, a group headed by a distinguished Indian-born molecular biologist, Har Gobind Khorana. 47, reported that it had achieved the first artificial synthesis of a gene-the basic unit of heredity in the nuclei of all cells. Although genetic material has been made in the laboratory before, scientists have always had to use at least some natural cellular material in the process. The Wisconsin achievement marks the first time that a single gene has been created entirely out of off-the-shelf chemicals...
...deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Twisted together like a spiral staircase, or double helix, the twin strands of the DNA molecule are linked by "steps" composed of pairs of mutually attracting chemicals, or bases, called nucleotides. DNA contains only four different kinds of nucleotides, but they can be arranged in an endless variety of complex sequences. Each complete sequence-some including thousands of steps on the molecular staircase-is a single gene containing a coded message of heredity. With that message, the gene can order the cell to produce one of the untold number of proteins out of which all living organisms...
...gift. (The class's original goal was $900,000, It has since been reduced.) Goodman wanted to propose giving part of it to struggling black colleges in the South "whose faculty are being stolen by Harvard and others to create their own facades, to try to curtail this endless, endless hoarding of money by Harvard when so many other colleges are dying for the lack of only a little." Goodman chose Storer to deal with because, he says, "he's the most humane one in the tight cabal that runs the class-the only one who bothered to show...
...theaters within the continental U.S. Made several years ago as a companion piece to I Am Curious (Yellow), Blue already looks outdated. Now that almost every film-from Hollywood as well as Europe-contains generous quotas of epidermis in action, Blue's primary attraction is hardly unique. Furthermore, endless interviews about insular Swedish political matters give the film the air of a kind of raunchy master's thesis. The sex scenes, when they do occur, are even more blah and passionless than Yellow's. If the end result of Yellow was soporific, the cumulative effect of Blue...