Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who entered the race was molecular biologist Martin Citron. In 1997, shortly after he moved from Harvard to Amgen, in Thousand Oaks, Calif., he and his team began a long, painstaking elimination process by inserting active human genes, in strings of 100 at a time, into living bacterial cells. When the team found cells making more amyloid protein than might have been expected, it narrowed the strings to 20 genes and repeated the process. Finally, the Amgen team zeroed in on the single gene responsible for producing the extra amyloid. Having found the culprit, the researchers went...
...cell-phone industry, to be sure, isn't without fault here. Numerous animal studies hint at the potential of damage to human cells from the sort of radio waves that cell phones emit. At the very least, a $200-billion-a-year industry ought to undertake further studies, if only for good public relations...
...history, has been widely practiced among many past populations and in the present era for reasons of war, traditional rituals, famine and possibly, at times, convenience or even preference. So why knock Neanderthals for gnawing neighbors? If a Neanderthal could comment, he might protest, "Hey, we're only human!" KATHRINE E. BOBICK Lake Katrine...
DIED. NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 99, experimental novelist whose book Tropisms (1939) jump-started the Roman Nouveau move ment; in Cherence, France. She ignored traditional approaches to plot and character, focusing on fleeting human reactions she called "movements...on the border of our consciousness...
...mail system was recently installed to improve communications, but Lea Ann Cook, a director at the transplant/surgical specialties intensive-care units, noticed that nurses were still frustrated at having limited access to classes and training and "still don't feel in the loop, because [e-mail] can't replace human contact." At firms such as Schwab, management works hard at dealing with night employees just as they would dayworkers...