Word: eye
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...uncovered by Shoko Egawa, a widely respected journalist whose book on Asahara and his movement came out in 1991. According to Egawa, Asahara was born Chizuo Matsumoto in 1955 on Kyushu, one of Japan's main islands, just south of Honshu. At birth he was sightless in one eye and purblind in the other, so his father, a craftsman who made tatamis (straw mats), sent him at age six to the city of Kumamoto, where he could attend a subsidized school for the blind. There a child with any sight at all had a great advantage. A former teacher said...
Imagine a creature with eyes everywhere--on the top of its head, on its chest, on its knees. Surely it must have leaped out of a monster movie, you say, or the caverns of ancient myth. But, no, this strange beast crawled--actually it flew--out of the pages of the august journal Science last week. In a new study, researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland described how they genetically engineered swarms of bizarre fruit flies-not as an attention-grabbing stunt but as part of a serious effort to understand how nature fashions something as magnificent...
...news stunned developmental biologists around the world. For until now, no one suspected that the eyeless gene was so powerful, capable of taking precedence over other genes, like those responsible for elaborating wings and legs. That an eye might partly form on a limb made sense, but not so perfect an eye, complete with all its light receptors. Marvels William McGinnis, a Yale University biologist: "All you have to do, it seems, is switch on the eyeless gene, and you get these beautiful eyes...
Weld, touted as presidential timber for months, said his 11-year-old daughter gave him another reason to stay home in '96: She read aloud to him a newspaper article about Chelsea Clinton's life in the public eye and said, "Daddy, you cannot subject me to this...
...passage of the Brady Law and assault-weapons ban made 1994 a banner year for the forces of gun control, 1995 is quickly shaping up as the year of the Great Rollback. With one eye cocked at next year's presidential race, Senate majority leader Robert Dole pledged last week to undo the assault-weapons ban by this summer. So far this year, three states (Virginia, Arkansas and Utah) have joined the four states that loosened restrictions on CCW (carrying concealed weapons) permits last year. Legislation is pending or awaiting gubernatorial signature in 16 states. In Texas last Wednesday...