Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Stice, the chief scientist for Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass. After all, it took Wilmut's team 400 tries to create Dolly. Others attempting to reproduce the experiment could very easily find it takes 6,000 tries. Dolly, in other words, may turn out to be a fluke, not a fake. No matter what she is, it's looking less and less likely that we're going to see clones of Bill Gates or Michael Jordan anytime soon...
...Jack Saylor, a Campbell University wrestler, died of a heart attack while trying to shed pounds before dawn. Saylor was riding a stationary bike while wearing a rubber suit--a common technique used to lose water-weight. While Saylor's death through dehydration may have seemed like a tragic fluke to some, November had yet another shocking event in store...
Smith said her search for an "integrated, multifaceted" American identity began in an acting class she took "as a fluke" in her 20s. When the professor required all the students to repeat 14 lines over and over, she chose Shakespeare's Queen Margaret, and had what she termed to be "a transcendental experience...
Still, I'm having trouble swallowing the idea that the California Cryobank opened up shop on Mass Ave.--minutes away from both Harvard and MIT--on a mere fluke. And, in fact, it isn't long before my sophomore informant remembers that he did have to list his SAT scores on one of the early questionnaires...
...blade. Then she stumbled on the triple flip in the short program, drawing marks as low as 5.2 for technical merit. She dropped to fourth place and later insisted in a teary voice that the fall was "not a doubting thing or a technical problem, just a fluke." The flub was shoved into the past by her solid long program set to music from the film The Rainbow. "It's about a young girl growing up and facing fears and learning how to deal with things and just really loving what she does," said Lipinski. "For me, that...