Word: extras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman, according to Kennedy, has two teenage sons, one of whom has a learning disability and requires extra tutoring, and a toddler daughter. Though she had a daycare voucher, the woman had repeated difficulties with getting the government-provided van to pick her daughter up at the agreed-upon time. Eventually she had missed so muchschool that she was forced to quit for the time being...
Since not all prescription drugs work for everyone, would you pay extra for a genetically customized drug that you knew would work...
Even so, these tests can spot only visible abnormalities in the 23 pairs of chromosomes we inherit from our parents, such as the extra chromosome associated with Down syndrome, a form of mental retardation, or biochemical errors, such as a reduced level of hex-A enzyme that brings on Tay-Sachs disease, a fatal metabolic disorder. Moreover, the results may be confused by so-called chromosome structural abnormalities--oddball configurations that may or may not have a genetically significant effect, thus exasperating couples who expect clear-cut answers from amniocentesis...
...biotech engineers wish to alter in some amazing way. Then, after patient cultivation to bring out the inserted trait, a prodigy is born. The transformed crop may be corn or cotton with a built-in insecticide, tomatoes that retain their fresh-picked texture on the shelf, or wheat with extra gluten, making for lighter, bouncier bread. The new crop of doctors has been so busy re-enacting the Creation in the past few years that Americans, at least, no longer pay much notice. If genetic engineers had envisioned a quick conquest of the world, however, they have experienced a sharp...
...Microsoft was a monopoly, it sure wasn't doing a very good job at it. Noting that the company has sold 125 million copies of the ubiquitous Windows 95 at an average price of $56, Schmalensee wondered why Microsoft wouldn't simply charge more if it could -- an extra 5 percent would earn the company a cool $173 million. That it didn't, he said, was evidence that competition exists...