Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrations will range from the scholarly to the silly. "Harmless history lessons" is how Stein describes We the People's program. In September Philadelphia will stage a re-enactment of the signing of the Constitution, with celebrities (still unnamed) playing the parts of the more prominent signers: George Washington, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin. The city will also re-create in its streets the grand parade that followed the original signing, "updated," says Rovsek, with 50 floats designed by contemporary artists like Peter...
...weapons were brutal: pipe bombs set inside harmless-looking packages that exploded when moved. The first victim, Steven Christensen, 31, a Salt Lake City businessman and Mormon bishop, was killed outside his office on Oct. 15, 1985. A few hours later in a nearby suburb, a second bomb took the life of Kathleen Sheets, 50, the wife of J. Gary Sheets, a former partner of Christensen...
...break stride as he mounted the steps alongside the Jihadair DC-10. "Ah, they're harmless. They're already obsessed with the annihilation of Iraq. By the time they finish that massacre there won't be any Iranians between the age of eight...
...more hopeful. Dr. Marc Girard of the Pasteur Institute in Paris announced last week that a vaccine developed there should be ready for human trials sometime next year. The vaccine was developed by adding protein fragments from the AIDS virus to vaccinia, the virus that causes cowpox and is harmless to humans...
...even more dramatic development, a dozen teams of scientists are working on techniques to use viruses for "gene therapy" on humans with genetic disorders. Using recombinant DNA techniques, they plan to make retroviruses harmless by removing key genes, and to endow the viruses with other genes -- the ones lacking or inoperative in people with genetic diseases. These re-engineered retroviruses would be employed as vectors that would invade the appropriate human cells and insert the healthy genes correctly into the cells...