Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision to drop the cards, which was made by the director of the Office of Fiscal Services, R. Jerrold Gibson '51, also signals a renewed effort by that office to test computer-linked I.D. card readers that would serve the checking function...
...campus to be knowledgeable about my product." To raise the faculty's appreciation of Bucknell's "common needs and interests," O'Brien plans to hold "metaphysical breakfasts" where faculty from different departments can discuss major educational topics. "At too many places," he says, "individual departments function as noncommunicating intellectual fiefdoms." O'Brien plans to teach one course for seniors called "Last Chance Philosophy" and to invite representatives of such institutions as CBS, U.S. Steel or the Metropolitan Opera to participate in courses examining the roles they play. The purpose: to bring students closer to "the realities...
...patient man. Nine years ago, he began working on the chemical synthesis of a single gene-the basic unit of heredity. By 1970 he had constructed a yeast-cell gene identical to the original-except for one thing: it lacked the vital "start" and "stop" signals to make it function in a living cell. Last week members of Khorana's team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology disclosed that his goal had finally been achieved. At an American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco, they announced that using only off-the-shelf chemicals, they had made an artificial gene...
...Fathers of the Holy Spirit. When the order's general assembly voted a series of reforms, Lefebvre resigned, charging that "democratization" of the church was the work of Satan. Six years ago he founded a seminary at Econe, Switzerland, dedicated to the training of traditionalist priests who would function as though Vatican II had never taken place...
...finding ways of overcoming the body's natural defenses against foreign cells, so that transplanted tissue will not be rejected. Up to now, the usual tactic has been a form of biochemical overkill known as immunosuppression: the transplant patient is heavily dosed with drugs that interfere with the function of white blood cells-the major weapon of the immune system-and block the formation of antibodies. These are the wondrous proteins designed by nature to seek out invading cells, including transplant tissue, and set the stage for their destruction by the white cells. At best, though, immunosuppression...