Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folks who think a darn sight better than they read, but if they knew how to read, they'd think a whole lot better still. Americans also git into trouble by being too free of the past. They never really did feel part of the world anyway, I guess, but it's too late for hiding out now. Sometimes I can feel the whole country rockin' on the raft with Jim and me, pretendin' that there ain't no shore, and that the river flowed from nowhere...
Laurence Lasky, a scientist at Genentech, Inc. of South San Francisco, announced that the firm has used genetic engineering to produce antibodies that neutralize the AIDS virus in a test tube. Lasky did not venture to guess if these antibodies can be formed in a human body, and the necessary tests could take months or years. To complicate matters, Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute reported that samples of virus isolated from the brains of AIDS victims inexplicably differ from the form of virus that commonly attacks the T cells of the immune system...
...houses with deep-set front porches. Town elders were unenthusiastic about becoming part of Mississippi, as the script stipulates, and having the town square blockaded. Then it was pointed out that the film company would spend a lot of money in town--$3 million or more is the current guess. Done. Once the deal was cut, the production company rented a fiber-glass statue of a Confederate soldier to put in the town square. Fields invited 300 local dignitaries to a cocktail party, and the county manager threw a clambake for the film people...
...find out what professors spend their spare time doing, stop by the Harvard University Press Display Room (Holyoke Center). There you can find the latest published by guess who. Right next door, The Thomas More Book Shop (Holyoke Center) stocks religious texts. For less classical religious titles, Shambhala Booksellers (58 JFK St.) the Dawn Horse Bookstore (99 Mt. Auburn St.) and Sky Light Books (111 Mt. Auburn St.) have sixties-style spirituality and occult titles. These stores provide electronic music and incense to enhance the browsing atmosphere...
...seniors secure their rooms with a variety of fiendishly clever locks and barriers, then leave campus and challenge the wimps (underclassmen) to get in. This year one room was guarded by a computer that had to be addressed in several languages before the door could be opened. "I guess it sounds like a strange way to have fun," says Ky-Anh Phan, 19, a sophomore from San Jose, "but building strange things is what this place is all about...