Word: hybrids
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...years ago--on July 2, 1922, to be precise--that pioneer Ralph Samuelson strapped on the first pair of water skis on Lake Pipen in Minnesota. In 1985 a surfer aptly named Tony Finn developed a hybrid between a water ski and a surfboard called the Skurfer. But that skiboard was so narrow and buoyant that only the most experienced skiers could work it. Before skiboarding sank like a stone, water-ski manufacturer Herb O'Brien came up with the Hyperlite, a carbon-graphite board of neutral buoyancy with large dimples on the bottom (phasers, to those in the know...
...that includes his Asian side. "The influence of Tiger's mother Kultida in his life is very important," declares a family friend. "He goes to the temple with her occasionally. She's a devout Buddhist. He wears a family heirloom Buddha around his neck. He's a hybrid of a lot of things, and that's how he sees himself. He honestly sees himself as a somewhat separate person from the norm--not in terms of talent but in terms of his makeup...
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...