Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...total since November to 1,400. In the comparable period a year earlier, the total was 344. Hundreds more may have died of hunger and thirst or drowned during the passage. Two weeks ago, for example, 23 Haitians died when their crowded boat capsized in choppy seas outside Freeport harbor. Says Truman Carr, an agent of the U.S. Border Patrol: "The boats are overloaded and there is no safety equipment. There's no telling how many have turned over...
...weeks later, the Soviet timber freighter Kliloi hove to, also near the Nordkyn Peninsula. It beat a retreat when another gunboat approached. The same day, the tanker Kochetov steamed into Vardo harbor, claiming there was an injured man aboard. So there was?but, strangely, it would have been easier for the craft to return to Murmansk...
Boston's two other division-leading clubs are getting ready to close out their seasons in somewhat more stylish fashion. The Tea Men, fresh from a little get-together with some British customs officers in Boston Harbor, should finish up atop their little bailiwick in the North American Soccer League, although their chances of survival in the playoffs are cloudy at best. The season will end for the team on Saturday in Memphis, with Teaperson Mike Flanagan making a last stab at surpassing New York Cosmo Giorgio Chinaglia for the league scoring crown (at this writing Flanagan trailed...
Other researchers were far more skeptical of going beyond in-vitro fertilization to the actual implantation of the developing embryo in the uterus. "The potential for misadventure is unlimited," said Dr. John Marshall, head of obstetrics and gynecology at Los Angeles County's Harbor General Hospital. How sure could anyone be that the Browns' baby will not be deformed, he asked. "What if we got an otherwise perfectly formed individual that was a cyclops? Who is responsible? The parents? The doctor? Is the government obligated to take care...
...chemical that causes the remaining pronucleus to replicate, thus giving the cell a full complement of genes. Then the cell itself divides, and the resulting embryo is placed in the uterus of a female mouse to develop. Using this technique, Biologist Peter C. Hoppe of Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., and Swiss Microsurgeon Karl Illmensee have produced seven mice, all females. (Males cannot be produced by this method because the male and female pronuclei never merge, making it impossible for the male XY chromosome combination to form...