Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Legacy does not offer a definitive answer. Rather, the result is a schizophrenic hybrid of attempts. No artist convincingly emulates Nicks; no artist successfully reworks her material. While this is fodder for lite-radio DJs (You can hear them breathlessly plug the tribute: "Can you believe it's been 25 years since Rumours came out? Let's hear the Goo Goo Dolls rework one of our favourites!"), the ultimate effect of Legacy is to leave us wondering what to do when it hovers closer to desecration than celebration...
...genetic repair processes. In a landmark proof-of-concept experiment, the Minnesota team permanently altered a blood-clotting gene in 40% of the liver cells in a group of rats. The researchers started by splicing their DNA patch into a slip of RNA. Then they encased the hybrid molecule in a protective coating, laced it with sugars that seek out liver cells and injected it into lab rats. True to plan, the hybrid molecules zeroed in on the targeted gene and lined up alongside it. An enzyme in the rats' own liver cells did the rest: whenever it spotted...
...found that the number grows on you after an initial period of distaste. You bond with it. It becomes part of you. As we evolve into a digital information economy, in which numbers are easier to parse, sort and control, there is something alluring about a name-number hybrid identity...
...character destiny? The President's character, at least in this compartment of his life, seems a hybrid of the Arkansas horndog and the Runaway Bunny. The horndog part is self-explanatory. The Runaway Bunny, you will remember, tests the limits of his independence by toddling off, as two-year-olds will; his mommy always comes after him and scoops him up in her snuggles. He is testing her. Who is the mommy being tested in this latest envelope-pushing behavior by Virginia Kelley's Boys Nation golden boy? Poor Hillary Clinton? The United States of America? Will America forgive Billy...
Washington wants smaller--or at least cleaner. At the Detroit show this year, the Big Three did their save-the-earth bit by displaying some "clean" concept cars. Chrysler unveiled its ESX2, which combines lightweight construction, plastic body panels and a hybrid power train (a small diesel engine, batteries and electric motor) to get 70 m.p.g. Ford displayed a concept vehicle fabricated out of aluminum, titanium and carbon fiber that gets up to 63 m.p.g. and weighs 40% less than a Taurus. Ford promised to adapt its Windstar minivan, classified as a truck, to meet lower emissions...