Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like to concentrate on a kind of experiment that is causing great concern and is restricted to quite special facilities: the so-called "shotgun" experiment with random fragments of DNA from animal cells. Two considerations seem pertinent. First, the probability that any fragment will contain a gene for a toxic product, or the genes of a tumor virus, is exceedingly low, though not zero. Second, evolutionary considerations provide an independent approach to the question. It seems exceedingly doubtful that our novel ability to introduce mammalian DNA into bacteria in the laboratory will create a truly novel class of organisms...
More recently, Huntington wrote a controversial article for the Trilateral Commission about democracy in the United States, in which he argued that expanded participation may fragment the nation's political consensus...
...Creation." I can only surmise that some student, working in a Milton archive and pressed for time, seized upon the nearest available paper, unaware of the momentous discovery within his grasp. For obviously what the student had unwittingly stumbled upon was a fair copy of a previously unknown fragment of Paradise Lost. I of course did not jump to this conclusion, but subjected the fragment to all possible tests, including metrical analysis and carbon 14 dating, before deciding that these lines are indeed by Milton. Possibly they represent an abortive attempt at a Book XIII, or even the beginning...
Barbara Norfleet's photographs are easy-to-read but enjoyable portraits of children "seen as people", she emphasizes. Michael Mazur and Flora" Natapoff justify their reputations as established Boston artists. But all that' can be seen of the works of any of these artists is a tiny fragment out of context...
Letelier died instantly, his legs blown off. Gobbets of flesh and blood-soaked upholstery were flung throughout the car's interior. A metal fragment slashed the neck of Letelier's front-seat companion, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, 25, severing her carotid artery. She drowned in her own blood. Her husband, Michael Moffitt, 25, who had been sitting in the back seat, somehow escaped almost uninjured...