Word: grown
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Scientists first began working with in vitro proteins, grown from animal cells in Petri dishes and bioreactors, about a decade ago. The technology was originally conceived as a means to make food for astronauts to take on long space missions; in 2000, the first edible in vitro muscle protein was created from a goldfish by the NSR/Touro Applied BioScience Research Consortium. Soon after, scientists realized the broader applicability of the technology and began developing it to feed the rest of us earthbound folk...
...prohibiting ROTC on Harvard’s campus. ROTC was banned from this end of Cambridge several decades ago, during the height of campus dissent over Vietnam. Our sense of tolerance for political ideologies has hopefully evolved since that time, but certainly our tolerance for gay students has only grown rightly stronger. Therefore, while it is unfortunate for individuals in our Harvard community to be so inconvenienced from not having a ROTC program of their own, the symbolic gesture has taken on a new and important meaning in the stand against institutionalized intolerance for homosexuality. When President Faust speaks...
...Hispanics like Murillo now constitute 7.9 percent of the student body at Harvard. Although this statistic has grown in recent years, it still feels nothing like her home in Ventura County, Calif., where two-thirds of the population is of Hispanic descent...
...Both of our strengths have grown over the past few years,” Kumar says. “I’ve tried to improve from the baseline and his serve and volleys have improved tremendously, and now we don’t have too many holes in our game. He covers the ground-stroke returns and I cover the net, so that really compliments our games...
...chose to concentrate in the humanities.) Yet while this is certainly preferable to hating your job, when taken to its logical conclusion, it destroys summer. And this seems somehow wrong.Indeed, the overbooked generation stands the risk of becoming the overwhelmed generation if this trend continues. We have grown up without a conception of spare time. Left to ourselves, we fidget and grow paranoid. It always seems that there is something we should be doing.Hence the birth of the productive-unproductive summer, the overbooked generation’s answer to relaxation. A typical productive-unproductive summer allows us to do something...