Word: fruits
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...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...
Instrument of God. Desai rises each morning at 3 or 4 to pray, work at his spinning wheel and practice yoga until about 7. He eats only uncooked food-milk, fruit, cheese, carrot juice-and disdains even cereals. He also rejects alcohol, tobacco and modern medicine, and looks and acts at least 20 years younger than his 81 years. He swore off sex in his early 30s as a way of achieving self-control. In principle he favors national prohibition and regards self-control as the best means of achieving family planning-although, he quickly adds, he realizes that "governments...
...chance that incisive criticism or debate really would invade our great Sanctum of Superficiality. It would have been worse than sacriligious; it would have spoiled all the fun--you know, all the traditional fellow-felling. (We read Meredith's lips during the show calling Robards a "Greenwich Village fruit who promotes himself anyway he can, if you get my meaning.") That's what it looked like to us, at least...
...quote Einstein, "Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals." Researchers deal with the practical applications of scientific theories and thereby create technology, but they themselves are not scientists. They harvest the fruit of science using funds from government, industry and private sources, and this is, indeed, subject to public concern...
...serve as an unwelcome reminder of the bitter winter. The wind was inflation, which leaped to an annual rate of 12.7% in February as measured by the Consumer Price Index, even worse than the 10% pace of January. By far the biggest rise came in food prices, largely reflecting fruit and vegetable shortages caused by January's crop-killing cold. Though most economists expect the rate to fall in coming months-they think the underlying pace is 5% to 6%-the February inflation rate was the worst in 2½ years...