Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lindenmann decided to call the mysterious stuff interferon, a hybrid of "interference" and the suffix "on," which was in vogue among biologists, who were using such names as cistron, recon and muton to describe new genetic concepts. The initial discovery was made in November and duly recorded in Isaacs' lab notebook under the entry: "In search of an interferon." Lindenmann took it all in stride. Said he: "I thought it quite natural that when you did research you discovered things...
...team played "sophisticated pond hockey." Whatever its name, the style of the Americans is oddly schizophrenic. They ride players into the boards and forecheck -an oafish game. On offense, on the other hand, they strive -when they can remember their orders-to practice pinpoint passing. The weakness of this hybrid approach showed up in a big game against the Czechs. With a one-man advantage after a Czech penalty, the Americans got too clever by half: they fecklessly passed the puck back and forth for 1 min. 40 sec., until time ran out. All the while, Brooks was screaming, "Shoot...
...games). Coach Herb Brooks' team is a long shot, especially in the face of a superb Soviet squad, for the first hockey gold medal since the 1960 team pulled its stunning upset in the Squaw Valley Games (see box page 83). But the team could surprise everyone with its hybrid style, matching traditional North American aggressiveness with European finesse. ("Sophisticated pond hockey," Brooks calls it.) Against a variety of college, N.H.L. and foreign national teams, the Americans have so far won 41 games, tied three and lost just...
What they have been playing is undermanned. After losing four lettermen to graduation, the twin assassins of injuries and academics have knocked off a half-dozen more, and what remains is a hybrid of good, healthy students and JV's. Even Flaman admits, "You can't play Division I hockey with...
...acres in 1950. Meanwhile, land grant state universities, which were started under a program of President Lincoln's, have researched and spread technological breakthroughs. Out of the agricultural experiment stations in the early 1930s came means of cross-pollinating two types of purebred corn. The resulting hybrid was particularly hardy and produced 50% higher yields. Later the Green Revolution, for which U.S. Scientist Norman E. Borlaug won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, produced more bountiful strains of wheat with strong stalks to bear the weight of larger yields. U.S. wheat output likewise increased...