Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pulse of the city is hard to escape, as the Red Line, directly beneath the restaurant, shuttles back and forth from Central to Kendall and blaring fire engines issue forth from the station across the street...
...pulse of the city is hard to escape, as the Red Line, directly beneath the restaurant, shuttles back and forth from Central to Kendall and blaring fire engines issue forth from the station across the street...
LIVERS AND BLADDERS. Anthony Atala, a surgeon who makes bladders at Boston's Children's Hospital, has taken muscle cells from the outside of dog bladders and lining cells from the inside and grown them in his lab. The cells, fed the proper growth-prompting chemicals, happily go forth and multiply. "In six weeks we have enough cells to cover a football field," Atala says. He placed a few muscle cells on the surface of a small polymer sphere and some lining cells on the inside. When he inserted the sphere in a dog's urinary system, the artificial bladder...
...Giuliani, would no doubt agree. He was in his first term when he found his son Andrew, then 7, playing Sim City. Andrew had placed police stations on every street corner. The crime rate was zero. Giuliani Sr. watched, fascinated, and began making suggestions on taxation, zoning and so forth. Finally, Andrew wheeled around. "Dad," he told the mayor of New York, "this is my city...
...soon became jaded. The computer was too cumbersome to throw into my briefcase and haul back and forth daily. I found it irritating to sit through the tedious Windows start-up process when my supposedly intelligent machine s-l-o-o-o-w-l-y discovered that it was no longer on a network; it was on my lap. And the two-hour battery just wasn't enough to sustain my two-way commute...