Word: hybridize
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Only a child that familiar with adversity, contend critics of the saxophone, could have foisted such a contraption on an unsuspecting world. A hybrid of the brass and woodwind families, the instrument is the perennial Cinderella of serious music. Its rich, sometimes dozing sound has never found a permanent place in the symphony orchestra, although after its invention in 1840 such French composers as Berlioz and Massenet experimented with it. In Germany only Richard Strauss, whose Domestic Symphony included a quartet of saxes, regarded it as anything but a yeoman of military bands...
...week or next year, but office-equipment experts insist that it is a serious prospect circa 1980. Indeed it is only one of the intriguing possibilities that they see resulting from the inevitable next step in office technology: a marriage of the computer and the photocopier to produce a hybrid system that could be called either a computer that copies or a copier that computes. The computer in such a system would store items in its capacious memory bank-a monthly mailing list in the case of the mailorder house-and electronically direct either nearby or distant copiers to reproduce...
...present, Xerox and IBM are only in the early rounds of the battle, but it is already proving costly. Each has been forced into an expensive invasion of the other's special turf. In order to acquire the necessary technology to produce an eventual hybrid system, Xerox has had to go into the computer business, and IBM has had to produce photocopiers. IBM has been the more successful, though neither has done especially well...
Rice that looks and tastes like wheat? A plant that yields both tomatoes and potatoes? Strong Turkish tobacco that burns as smoothly as mild Virginia leaf? Such unlikely hybrids may now be a little closer to reality. Last week an Atomic Energy Commission researcher announced that he had achieved a long-elusive goal: the successful fusion of two different species of plant cells into a hybrid that has characteristics of both its "parents" and is capable of reproduction...
...virus used in the vaccine is a hybrid. Working in the NIH laboratories, the research team combined Hong Kong flu viruses from the 1968 epidemic with chemically altered samples of a 1965 strain. The result is a virus strong enough to produce immunity to the flu, but too weak to cause the disease itself...