Word: fragmentism
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...that he can easily splinter a cooked bone into tiny shrapnel-like pieces, some of which may perforate his intestines. It is far better, says A.A.H.A. President Warren Walker, to give dogs uncooked shank or knuckle bones, which are harder and less likely to fragment...
...green of the par five eighth was an arduous business, and he found a greenside bunker. After unleashing a frenzied rain of blows, his ball had not budged. "S" suddenly lost the will to go on, so his incomplete scorecard will be preserved for posterity as a noble fragment...
Prior detests this kind of "progress". In one of his paintings industrial wastes billow into the air amidst a peaceful pastoral setting. Another painting called "House on a Highway" shows a home whose yard is bordered by a chain link fence. A fragment remains of the old wooden fence that must have marked the boundary more picturesquely before the highway was built. A basketball lies forgotten by the fence--the yard is not a very nice place for children to play any more. Ironically, a billboard by a highway peaks out of another charming landscape exhorting us to "enjoy!" what...
...gibe seemed aimed particularly at another Stanford scientist, David Hogness, who was leading the way in a new form of genetic roulette, appropriately called "shotgun" experiments. Hogness was using enzymes to fragment the DNA of fruit flies and then was inserting the gene material piecemeal into bacteria. That way he could reproduce the inserted genes in vast quantities and discover their functions. The technique seems to be working. To date, he has managed to isolate and identify 36 of the thousands of the fruit fly's genes. But critics fear that because the nature of many of the genes...
...have, it is doubtful that a one or two day visit annually allows the outside advisers to draw a comprehensive picture of the school's program and priorities. Given the structural problems in the visiting committee system, the Overseers should re-examine the whole system instead of censoring a fragment of it. Even an excellent program at the GSD or elsewhere at Harvard can surely benefit from the advice of experts in the field. An arbitrary and publicity sensitive governing board cannot hope to accomplish much in the spirit of improvement. The Overseers' recent action has set an unfortunate precedent...