Word: graftings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was lots of crime news in the big type too. Over in Utah, a 15-count indictment was handed up against Salt Lake City bid-committee principals Tom Welch and Dave Johnson in connection with the $1.2 million in graft that preceded--led to?--Salt Lake's selection by the International Olympic Committee as host of the 2002 Winter Games. The feds went ballistic on Welch and Johnson because they wouldn't cop a plea to bribing I.O.C. members. The two say they're innocent because schmoozing members at the time wasn't against I.O.C. policy--it was I.O.C...
...loud 28. House Dems walked out over the __ prescription-drug issue 30. Inkster, who repeated as LPGA champion 33. Oysters' homes 37. Cinders of old comics 39. Mork's sign-off, when doubled 41. James __ Garfield 43. Slaughter in baseball 45. __ White (IBM's new supercomputer) 46. Kind of graft 47. Kit Carson's home 48. __-Locka, Fla. 49. Masters and Johnson subject 51. Medical specialty (abbr.) 52. Royal-jelly maker...
...nude mouse, but infertile women may come to love them. Canadian doctors have taken tiny bits of a young woman's frozen ovarian tissue and transplanted them to the back muscles of a fur-free, or "nude," mouse (the lab species of choice because it has no graft-rejecting immune system). The eggs were incubated under the critter's skin and eventually harvested. A tiny first step, but an important one: the technique may one day allow women with ovarian cancer, for example, to have children of their...
...doubt we'll be doing it for very long, as various models of biological and nanomolecular computing are looming rapidly in view. Rather than plug a piece of hardware into our gray matter, how much more elegant to extract some brain cells, plop them into a Petri dish and graft on various sorts of gelatinous computing goo. Slug it all back into the skull and watch it run on blood sugar, the way a human brain's supposed to. Get all the functions and features you want, without that clunky-junky 20th century hardware thing. You really don't need...
...getting rid of Skuratov, who had refused to back down on an investigation into corruption inside the Kremlin - and then was publicly humiliated by a video showing him in bed with prostitutes - may be a sign that Putin's power won't necessarily translate into an aggressive campaign against graft. "This is a move that primarily protects Yeltsin and his former top aide Pavel Borodin, who originally brought Putin to work in the Kremlin," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "It now looks as though the investigation of the Mabetex affair, the biggest scandal of the Yeltsin administration, which involved...