Word: height
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WHETHER YOU THINK GENES were invented by God or by Nature, it seems the height of arrogance -- and absurdity -- to seek patents on the DNA that lies within human cells. Yet absurdity was not the reason the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office gave for turning down the National Institutes of Health in its bid to do just that. Instead, it was that the genes failed to meet the standards of novelty, usefulness and nonobviousness required if an invention is to be protected. Among other things, said the patent office, the descriptions of the genes had been published before, so they...
...year's increase in inter-group racial tensions certainly made its way beyond the Square. The cancellation of the minority student pre-frosh weekend last year may have sent the wrong message at the wrong time. And the fact that pre-frosh weekend happened to take place at the height of last spring's problems certainly didn't encourage prospective Black first-years to choose Harvard over another school--a competing institution that not only may have offered a more positive interracial environment, but a fatter scholarship check to boot...
...prepared for my trip here this fall, I recalled my first visit to Boston, in the 1970's, at the height of the school busing crisis here. the Boston Globe's front page greeted me at Logan Airport with the photo of a suit-and tie-wearing Black man being impaled by a white man wielding a flag pole supporting Old Glory...
...stressing defense, defense, defense," Lem said. "We've never been blessed with great height, so we're looking to frustrate the bigger teams...
...stressing defense, defense, defense," Lem said. "We've never been blessed with great height, so we're looking to frustrate the bigger teams...