Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AS/5 computer "will provide a significant increase in computing capacity at 1730 Cambridge St.," a memorandum form the Computing Center says. The AS/5 will replace the IBM 370/148 which is currently being used...
...country where Machiavellian political intrigue has historically been par for the course. The average Italian does not know where to turn today for salvation. The lack of trust among various factions and the unwillingness to compromise which have characterized Italian national affairs since 1945 have continually thwarted efforts to form a new political coalition which would embrace more liberal elements and might bring about a greater degree of social cohesion. Even the Italian Left has suffered serious disintegration in recent years with more moderate socialist spokesmen and more extremist leaders growing more and more intolerant of one another...
...praising the enterprise that she and her husband run in Houston: a flea market, that most elementary form of commerce. All across the U.S., inflation-weary Americans searching for lower-priced goods are making flea markets a jumping business. Thousands are operating in non-luxe hotels and discount stores, at race tracks and drive-in theaters. Some are in cities, patterned after the grandfather of flea markets, the Marché aux Puces in Paris, and the ancient bazaars of Cairo, Baghdad and Tehran. Many, many more are sprouting on what were once dusty, barren plots along highways a few miles...
Cloning is based on a remarkable fact. Virtually every cell in an organism -be the life form a human being, a maple tree or a bacterium-carries all the genetic information needed to create the whole organism. The reason that a liver cell is different from, say, a skin cell is that different genes in each cell seem to be "turned on." In the language of biologists, the cells are differentiated. U.S. Biologists Robert W. Briggs and Thomas J. King confirmed this principle and pioneered the basic technique of animal cloning in the early 1950s. They removed the nuclei...
...this technique, Biologist Peter C. Hoppe of Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., and Swiss Microsurgeon Karl Illmensee have produced seven mice, all females. (Males cannot be produced by this method because the male and female pronuclei never merge, making it impossible for the male XY chromosome combination to form...