Word: eveing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...event, he seemed as surprised as anyone else that his modest and eerily simple experiment, conducted with limited funding, should have as much impact on our sense of what it is to be human as anything since Adam and Eve. Wilmut wanted to use his cloning technology to improve livestock. "I think we should trust the farmers," he said. Any experimentation with humans, he believed, should be kept strictly at the level of cells and proteins. It would be ethically unacceptable, he said, to use his technique to create a human clone...
...eve of another century, who knows where the next Wright brothers will be found, in what grade of school they're studying, or in what garage they're inventing the next Flyer of the information age. Our mission is to make sure that wherever they are, they have the chance to run their own course, to persevere and follow their own inspiration. We have to understand that engineering breakthroughs are not just mechanical or scientific--they are liberating forces that can continually improve people's lives. Who would have thought, as the 20th century opened, that one of its greatest...
Mleczko received the Kazmaier Award last night in St. Paul, Minn., on the eve of the semifinals of the American Women's College Hockey Alliance National Championship tournament at the University of Minnesota...
...eve of the attacks, President Clinton promised the nation that no American ground troops would be sent into Yugoslavia, although it seems doubtful that much can be accomplished from the air. Whether Milosevic will be deterred from his grip on Kosovo remains to be seen; it seems inevitable, however, that Milosevic will never voluntarily withdraw troops from the bitterly disputed territory that, while 70 percent ethnic Albanian, is claimed as the historical and spiritual heartland of the Serb...
...sounds a St. Patty's mainstay. "We're going to have traditional Irish music all day. We have a working fireplace and they're going to gather around there," Byrne says. "We have a special appearance by the Boston Police bagpipe band on the day itself and on the eve we have the Irish Army pipe band in town...