Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to confront "the last vestiges of discrimination" left over from past civil rights movements, he was unable to offer any idea of what this agenda should be about. This kind of groping in the dark for reasons to "change," in my opinion, will do far more to fragment the Asian American community than to unite...
...page-long fragment, for example, she creates the voice of a socialite getting back to her roots through gourmet cuisine: "Did I tell you I've been cooking again? I'm really turning my house into a home...When the heat pours out of the oven and I baste the browning bird with all those good juices, it makes me never want to read another issue of Vanity Fair." Bernhard sounds both snotty and heartfelt; her pen drips in a sarcasm so intense it redeems these cliches, rendering them oddly evocative and always hilarious...
After extrapolating the full VIN from the fragment, the FBI contacted the Ford Motor Co., which checked its records and found that the vehicle was a yellow Ford Econoline E-350 van that had been sold to the Ryder Truck Rental Co. in Alabama. Ryder officials turned up the license plate XA70668 and reported that the van had been rented out of the company's Jersey City office. By Wednesday, only three days after the piece of metal had been found on the ramp, the FBI was in contact with Ryder officials in Jersey City, who had no difficulty remembering...
...federally funded U.S. project, led by the National Institutes of Health, has mounted a campaign to patent each DNA fragment that its researchers can reproduce, even before its usefulness is determined. The policy has been heavily criticized within scientific circles and figured in the abrupt resignation last spring of Nobel-prizewinning geneticist James Watson as head of the Genome Project. Cohen speaks for many critics when he names the two big problems with the NIH approach: "The first is moral. You can't patent something that belongs to everyone. It's like trying to patent the stars. The second...
...initial maps under construction on both sides of the Atlantic will not identify every gene on every chromosome. Instead, the maps describe fragments of DNA arranged in the proper order as they would appear on the chromosomes. So far, researchers have identified a few genetic markers on each fragment: for example, the gene for Huntington's disease on a fragment of chromosome 4. In a later phase, they hope to crack the code of each gene -- a code that is written in chemical constituents called base pairs. The great challenge is the sheer size of the task. The human genome...