Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: After making the Senate jury choke down three hours of David Kendall's lawyering, the White House figured to serve Dale Bumpers as dessert. But the ex-Arkansas senator and current Clinton buddy did even better than that. For the first time in this plodding impeachment trial, listeners were...
I figured I'll play on my strengths, like watching MTV all day and making penis jokes. But I know from painful personal experience that the voting editors don't appreciate that stuff.
They figured wrong. The Nazis and the communists may be history, but an even more electrifying force has arisen to put the fear of God into the genome project: the profit motive. Pharmaceutical companies stand to make incalculable billions of dollars by turning genome research into new treatments for a...
Venter's reputation as a creative thinker was made back in the late 1980s. He was studying genes at the National Institutes of Health when he came to a humbling realization: while the greatest minds in biochemistry still hadn't figured out how to locate a gene efficiently, cells do...
In October a 24-year-old woman who had been comatose for more than three years gave birth to a baby girl. It was only a few days before the delivery that the staff at the woman's nursing home in Lawrence, Mass., even discovered that she was pregnant. Under...