Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Undaunted, Gourley hopes some good will come out of his efforts: he wants to melt down the weapons for a new church bell. "We just want people to think Denver is not the O.K. Corral," he said...
...Good science as far as it went, but Arcata's thinkers hadn't reckoned with the State of California's political food chain. The city's neighbors still wanted the state system to solve their sewage problems. State bureaucrats believed the city's opposition to the proposed plant was naive and anti- environmentalist. In May of 1977, Arcata approached a regional meeting of the state's Water Quality Control Board and sat for seven hours until allowed to speak during an "open comments" period...
...called Klopp Lake. Mount Trashmore has evolved into a wildflower-rich meadow. Standing by his pond, Allen recalls that first day he and Gearheart tramped through the mud with the idea exploding in their minds. "We flushed a deer out of that spot," he says. "It seemed like a good omen." An uncommon one, at least...
When Carnation started selling its new "hypoallergenic" infant formula called Good Start H.A. last November, the Nestle subsidiary hailed the product as a "medical breakthrough." Because the formula is made from whey, Carnation believed it would prove ideal for colicky babies who cannot tolerate traditional milk-based solutions. Since then, six cases have been reported to the Food and Drug Administration of babies who developed allergic reactions to Good Start. One of these infants vomited constantly for more than an hour...
...would remove bone-marrow cells from a patient and expose them to a retrovirus* engineered to carry correctly functioning versions of the patient's faulty gene. When the retrovirus invaded a marrow cell, it would insert itself into the cellular DNA, as retroviruses are wont to do, carrying the good gene with it. Reimplanted in the marrow, the altered marrow cells would take hold and multiply, churning out the previously lacking protein and curing the thalassemia patient...