Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Children of Men, James displays remarkable talent in setting up such a complex and intriguing moral and emotional puzzle. But she fails to extract any digestible conclusion from her imaginative spiritual exploration...
...gofer, but it's obvious he's much more than that," says John Brummett, political editor at the Arkansas Times. In fact, Lindsey is the outside, practical manifestation of Clinton's political anima, a campaign unto himself: he took the competing opinions of the staff to Clinton to extract decisions from him, and then he applied his own prosecutorial mind to the candidate to make sure that decision was the best one. He reads everything and remembers what everyone said and when they said it. "He's the tape recorder running when the deal is being cut," says an aide...
Walsh would extract those lessons from his subconscious and bake them into his next game plan. In turn, he made his players practice the hypothetical so as never to be surprised when it unexpectedly happened the next Sunday. "Everybody was ready for every situation," says 49er offensive tackle Harris Barton. "When we began a game, we really had an edge." Adds 49er linebacker Mike Walter: "On the field, the game can be a blur. If you have panic on the sideline, it will kill a team quickly." Walsh, standing serenely on the 49er sideline, secure in the knowledge that...
...done a good one." But in the early days of the Walsh regime, the players held back, not sure what to make of a coach whose sense of humor once prompted him to disguise himself on the spur of the moment as a bellhop. He then tried to extract tips from his players as they emerged from the team bus after it arrived at the hotel. "In the beginning," says junior quarterback Steve Stenstrom, "he would say something funny, but we weren't sure we should laugh. Now we laugh at his jokes every day. He keeps us loose...
...want to avoid passing their defective genes on to their children. When one parent carries the deadly and dominant gene for Huntington's chorea, for example, there is a 50% chance that any offspring will have it too. To reduce those odds to zero, doctors of the future will extract several eggs from the prospective mother and fertilize them in a test tube with her husband's sperm. When the fertilized eggs have grown to the 32- or 64-cell stage, the doctors will flick off a few cells from each and analyze their DNA. When they find...