Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...avoid this distinction, the team must win four of its next 15 games. A reasonable goal, but first the Crimson must extract itself from the quicksand that is its 11-game losing streak...
Gourmet magazine's sugar-cookie recipe. In its July issue, the magazine mistakenly substituted oil of wintergreen, which in substantial doses can cause nausea and vomiting, for nontoxic wintergreen extract. Gourmet hastily mailed a warning notice and correction to subscribers; no casualties were reported...
...better for the heart. Researchers at the University of Chicago reported in April that rats experienced a 12% to 14% drop in systolic blood pressure and a substantial reduction in cholesterol levels after four weeks on a celery diet. The rodents were injected with a tiny amount of celery extract a day; a 150-lb. human would have to gobble four large stalks for the same proportionate intake. Stalks, however, unlike extract, contain lots of undesirable salt. The cardio-friendly ingredient in celery is a compound called phthalide that may also exert a mild sedative effect on humans...
...pretrial incarceration without an opportunity for bail. Some experts are also worried that Noriega's lawyers haven't fully explored his POW status or the jurisdictional question of kidnapping him and bringing him to Miami to trial. "How would we feel about Libyan squads coming to the U.S. to extract Islamic justice?" wonders Alfred Rubin, professor of international law at Tufts University...
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY. Thanks to PCR, it is now possible to extract badly degraded DNA sequences from ancient sources and enlarge them like photographic prints. Thus far, PCR has been used to examine minuscule fragments of DNA taken from the brain cells of humans buried 8,000 years ago in a Florida bog. Analysis of such DNA can shed light on the emigration patterns of ancient peoples and perhaps some of the diseases that afflicted them. The technique has also been used to examine DNA from animal skins in natural-history museums and from the frozen remains of woolly mammoths. Among...