Word: gardners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cambridge University Physiologists Richard Gardner and Robert Edwards reported in Nature that they mated rabbits, then from the females took fertilized egg cells that had already grown into tiny embryos but had not yet become implanted in the uterine wall. They placed each embryo under a microscope, cut a tiny slit in its surrounding membrane and drew out several hundred cells with a suction pipette. The cells were then examined for the presence of sex chromatin, a substance found only in female cells. Separated into male and female groups, the embryos were next placed in a culture medium, a laboratory...
Such arguments are frequently irrelevant to the dissenter. He answers that law does not always provide justice; that there are good and bad laws, and that the governed sometimes detect the difference before their governors. Before his unhappy resignation as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, John Gardner observed: "Once the grip of tradition or apathy or oppression has been broken and people can hope for a better life, their aspirations soar. But the institutions that must satisfy these aspirations change at the same old glacial speed...
Eventually, Godard brings the recruits home and shows that to the spoiled belongs the victory. Ulysses and Michelangelo, now maimed and babbling, carry with them a trunkful of treasure. The loot is a lampoon of Western culture: hundreds of picture postcards that juxtapose Ava Gardner's face and an Ingres nude, Volkswagen factories and the pyramids. In the end, the soldiers are themselves consumed by the anarchic "peace" that follows victory in which sound trucks thread the littered streets blaring, "Our enemies are democrats, Marxists, Jews...
...Gardner is presently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Urban Coalition, based in Washington, D.C. Next year he will also be a visiting professor at M.I.T. where he will spend most of his time...
With the exception of Gardner, who will be at the Institute only periodically, the new fellows will be in Cambridge from five months to a year each...