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What worries many of the townspeople is Harvard's intention to learn more about DNA, the master molecule of heredity, by inserting segments of DNA from other organisms into E. coli, a common intestinal bacterium often used in genetic research. Some scientists fear that fusion of these DNA segments with E. coli's DNA might create new, lethal microbes against which humans have no immunity. To guard against this and other possible threats, the National Institutes of Health recently issued tough rules to govern such research...
...discovery, in each film, of a revolutionary jump in theme or technique, the unexpected tapping of a mother-lode. In Tango, she hits upon the bleak, angry use of explicit sex; in Shampoo, the expansion of the conventional romantic triangle into a romantic pentagon; and in Nashville, the seamless fusion of stylization and a documentary feel. She jumps up and down at these new affects, and never settles down to put her surgeon's tools to work. Sparked by a childlike fascination for film history and change, she tugs at our sleeves and blurts out "look at that...
...Japan, where the corporation almost has the status of a huge family, most people stay with the same company from their first day of work until retirement. Sociologist Hiroshi Minami argues that there is a "fusion of identity" between a company and those who work for it-not only in their eyes but in those of social peers and neighbors...
...seems to be an expression of simultaneous motion and sunlight. The result does not go much beyond the level of an exercise--though in the last two or three, where the lines of the motion begin to dominate, rather than the fragmented forms, there appear hints of a new fusion...
They remained estranged until the present tour. At her concerts, Baez would mimic him and demand that he return to the "movement" that spawned him. In a conversation with Michael March of Fusion magazine in 1969, Dylan said he hadn't seen her in two years. She must have been scared off by the electricity and morbid lyrics, he speculated, but he still loved her "even if she is straddled on peace and some punk ex-resident-from-college-kid (David Harris...