Word: experimention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When one surveys the history of our nation, the White House has been at the center of our finest moments. Men risked their lives to defend it in 1812. During the Cuban Missile crisis men strove to avert nuclear holocaust from within its walls. As soldiers fought for their lives...
...chicken's movement's resembled those of a quail. "It turns out there's a part of the quail's brain that I can transfer into a chicken that makes the chicken move its head like a quail when it's crowing like a chicken," said Evan Balaban, the experimental neurobiologist who performed the study. In another experiment, Balaban made a chicken sing like a quail by implanting into a fetal chicken brain cells which control quail sound patterns. The altered birds, Balaban said, remained chicken-like in most respects and displayed behavioral characteristics which were "well organized." Might...
All Shanghai is caught up in entrepreneurial energy. In the mid-'80s, while southern provinces like Guangdong and Hainan turned Deng's experiment in "special zones" into a capitalist boom, Shanghai's decrepit state industries stagnated, its infrastructure disintegrated, and its people sulked. The economic revolution wasn't reaching far...
DIED. CHIEN SHIUNG WU, 84, Columbia University professor emeritus and one of the world's foremost physicists; in New York City. A native of Shanghai, Wu came to the U.S. in 1936 and earned a doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1956 she conducted an experiment...
BEAVERTON, Ore.: The science of cloning climbed a little higher on the evolutionary tree with the announcement that scientists at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center in Beaverton have successfully cloned a rhesus monkey. Unlike Dolly, the wonder sheep who was cloned from an adult animal, the monkeys were duplicated...