Word: growing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME wrote last October, "all kids, not just ones from families that can afford a home computer, should grow up with a mouse in their hand." The President and I could not agree more. Access to the basic tools of the information age is no longer a luxury for our children. It is a necessity...
...then I plunged into the Harvard Aquarium and everything changed. Suddenly, I was residing in the most prestigious locale around. The environment here is carefully controlled to provide an ideal place to grow. Food is plentiful and readily available, housing nothing but the best compared to other aquariums. There is no tide and the water is calm. Yet, every once in a while, some spoiled character complains about...
...point of college is to grow, experience and challenge oneself, how can anyone be expected to do that while struggling with so many requirements? Instead of actually experiencing London, I am forced to read about it in a cold Cambridge classroom...
...well known and widely applauded for his many good, politically and artistically correct works offscreen helps make the movie seem self-regarding, self-righteous, even smug. There was once something of the wicked kid in Redford's screen character, and one fondly imagined that he would someday grow up to be, if not a dirty old man, then a subversive and obstreperous one. Certainly we never guessed he'd end up a rustic bore like Tom Booker...
Trouble is, Black 6 and kin often do their jobs too well. "Mice distort or exaggerate what you see in humans," says tumor biologist Robert Kerbel of Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Science Centre. Mouse tumors, which are usually planted just under the skin, grow much more rapidly than deep-seated human tumors. Also, as Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop observes, too much breeding isn't always a good thing. In his labs at the University of California, San Francisco, he is genetically altering mice to provide better models for studying leukemia and neuroblastoma, the most common tumor in children under...