Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jogging is, a second job. Another profitable brawnstorm, this one invented in Europe and developed in the U.S. by Peter Stocker, is called Parcourse. Dotted around its 1½-mile track are signs, directing the faithful to stop and perform an exercise, then jog on. Pa-course suggests a hybrid of miniature golf and the stations of the cross, and citizens should be warned, because its franchises, creeping eastward from California, can now be found in 65 cities...
...five years ago, California scientists learned how to combine genes from different organisms, regardless of how low or high they are on the evolutionary scale. Though the researchers added only one or two new genes to a bacterium's collection of thousands of genes, the creation of such hybrid molecules was a stunning feat. The accomplishment seemed to breach one of nature's more inviolable barriers. Even primates as closely related as gorilla and man are so different genetically that they cannot produce offspring. Thus it was not size alone that made King Kong and his ladylove...
...coli did not merely accept the hybrid plasmids. When the bacteria reproduced-by dividing and thus doubling-at a rate of about once every 30 minutes, they created carbon copies of themselves, new plasmids and all. In only a day, one bacterium could make billions of duplicates of a transplanted gene...
...GARDEN of poisonous plants, Dr. Rappaccini plots the second genesis. He has given life to new species of herbs more deadly than hemlock. Each shrub he cultivates is a hybrid of poison and medicinal, each plant developed as a result of his devotion to science, Dr. Rappaccini's most perfect--and most fatal--creation is his daughter, the beautiful Beatriz. She is a symbol of man's inventiveness to rival Pygmalia. The only mother Beatriz can claim is Curiosity; she knows she belongs body and soul to her father. Her breath poison, her tears acid, Beatriz lures the new Adam...
Despite the control, the virtuosity, the hybrid quality of the musical technique--there's something you can't explain away in Barbieri's music. His photo on the album cover shows him engulfed in flames, and the image is appropriate...