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...years spend $2 million." That figure excludes expenditures for fume-hood renovations in the labs or possible House renovations. To finance the project, the Faculty--which has built a $785,000 deficit into its 1980-81 budget--would have to use reserve funds associated with particular buildings and float a loan from the Corporation...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: The Big Four | 9/24/1980 | See Source »

...Stanford University Band also marched before its "Baby Float," a Cadillac dragging red-spattered dolls and a "California Hedonism" display, two soakers...

Author: By Mary ANN Kocur, | Title: Let Them Eat Cake | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

Unlike so many other teams that float into the upper echelons, the Expos have still maintained their unrefined manner, their distinct character...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Pennant Race Goes North of the Border | 9/16/1980 | See Source »

...metabolic disorder that may result in brain damage-many basic questions must first be answered. For example, will the transplanted genes actually work as they are supposed to or will they be modified or inactivated by the animal's own genetic machinery? Will the foreign genes free-float in the cells or will they latch on to the other genes arranged along the chromosomes? Will genes that normally are switched on only in specific types of cells function in the same way when they have been introduced into other types of cells through genetic engineering? Finally, will transplanted genes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Moving Toward Designer Genes | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...around the city. Curious pidgin words, rather the way the Sioux talk in old western films, are produced-to no effect whatsoever. My first attempt at a conversation in Russian -just to say that I had tried-was with an elderly fisherman staring morosely at the tiny float of his line in the murk of the Moscow River. I rehearsed behind him, peering into my pocket dictionary, and when I thought I had the word right, I put on a bright smile and, leaning against the stone balustrade, I asked in an offhand way, "Bolshoye?" This is the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Frisbee over Moscow | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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