Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Against the tigers on Friday night, Harvard was just 2-of-16 from beyond the arc form an abysmal 12.5 percent and lost the game, 55-42. One day later the Crimson scorched the Quakers with nine treys on 21 attempts for a 70-68 victory...
...history backward). Here the story Straight Fiction posits a society in which homosexuality is the social norm and heterosexuals are fearful of discovery. Career Move illustrates what might happen if poems rather than prose became movie material. "The only thing we have a problem on 'Sonnet' with...is the form," says a Hollywood producer to a dismayed poet...
Amis' outsize aptitude for mimicry runs rampant in What Happened to Me on My Holiday. It is written entirely in a dialect that sounds like some form of New Yorkese ("We grabbed zum lunj and then went oud to Lang Island in a big goach galled the Jidney"). Not for the starchy or easily offended, these exercises in absurdity showcase Amis' extravagant talents and splashy intellect. But we must also say that a little Heavy Water goes a long...
...chimps and monkeys to other scientific custodians, Marilyn is getting belated recognition. In this week's Nature, researchers at the University of Alabama in Birmingham report that Marilyn's frozen tissue, carefully preserved all these years, may have solved a pair of lingering medical mysteries: where the dominant form of the AIDS virus originated in the animal world, and how it made the deadly leap to humans. More than brilliant scientific detective work, the Alabama research, if it turns out to be correct, could lead to new treatments and possibly even a cure for a fatal disease that afflicts more...
...some time, scientists have known that a small African monkey called the sooty mangabey is the natural reservoir of a virus very similar to HIV-2, which causes a milder form of AIDS found largely in western Africa. But the source of HIV-1, the dominant cause of the AIDS pandemic, has remained elusive to virus hunters like Alabama's Dr. Beatrice Hahn. Long on the trail of links between HIV and kindred simian viruses, she jumped at the chance to examine old tissue samples (stored, as it turns out, in a freezer at the National Cancer Institute) from...