Word: hybridization
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Clinicals are a hybrid of in-class instruction and real world practice. To take clinicals, students enroll in a standard class (such as administrative law, delivery of legal services, employment law, or family law). The "clinical" is the out-of-the classroom component, in which students perform a legal externship and help real clients resolve their legal problems...
...David T. Scadden, associate professor of medicine at HMS, is using gene therapy to fight HIV. He is inserting a hybrid gene--part HIV-receptor and part T-cell activator--into patients' T-cells...
...conventional wisdom falls short. These are the waning years of the 20th century, and out on the margins of spiritual life there's a strange phosphorescence. As predicted, the approach of the year 2000 is coaxing all the crazies out of the woodwork. They bring with them a twitchy hybrid of spirituality and pop obsession. Part Christian, part Asian mystic, part Gnostic, part X-Files, it mixes immemorial longings with the latest in trivial sentiments. When it all dissolves in overheated computer chat and harmless New Age vaporings, who cares? But sometimes it matters, for both the faithful...
What results is an experimental hybrid of both genres. At some points, Ulrich acknowledges that the artistic needs of the film supersede the historical accuracy of the film, but "it will be for others to see if this collaboration worked. Too much historian? Not enough? But this is the risk that Laurie took in making the film. I think this is an exciting project because of that risk...
...into a quasi-capitalist economic miracle. The China that comes after Deng will grow inexorably from the complex of roots he planted firmly in the nation's soil. Yet his work is unfinished, and the next China will have to come to terms with the fundamental contradiction in his hybrid creation. Even as the country embarked on a headlong pursuit of free-market economics, Deng insisted it be done under the iron fist of a rigid communist political system. The people would be free to get rich but not to challenge or change their leaders. Economic liberties would have...