Word: hybrids
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Mack's book describes 13 cases in which peoplewere abducted by aliens for sexual experiments,including that of a man who remembers an alienfemale taking a sperm sample from him, a woman whosays she gave birth to a human-alien hybrid and aman who says he had an alien wife in a paralleluniverse...
JOSHUA QUITTNER'S "WHY EMPEROR BILL Should Rule" [Cover Stories, June 5] neatly describes the frustrations shared by users of personal computers. The unreliability of these machines, caused mainly by integration of hybrid software, is the reason Big Business has stayed loyal to the mainframe. Bill Gates has been the visionary, taking microprocessing to where it is today, so let's give him credit. To clip his wings at this stage could end the U.S. domination of the industry he helped create. Michael E. Jacobs Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
Placed squarely between Widener Library and Boylston Hall is a gray sculpture that looks like some kind of turtle-lion hybrid. It's Ch'ing Dynasty original, carved before 1821, and donated in 1936 by the Harvard Club of Shanghai...
There is nothing new about such conceits, of course. "Snobbery and gardening have gone hand in hand for hundreds of years," argues Pollan. There have always been those who plant old roses with good bloodlines, he explains, and those who go for high-tech hybrid teas with names like Chrysler Imperial-"a rose named after a car, for God's sake." What's different today, he observes, is that gardening has become such a fad. "You can pour vast sums of money into an acre of land and acquire the patina of sophisticated gardening very quickly." Horticultural social climbers speedily...
...supplied by Harvard, which boasts several books on marijuana-growing in its libraries). Tom's remaining 15 plants--he originally began with 50--were raised from four different types of seeds that he took from pot he bought: two types of sativa, one indica from West Virginia and one hybrid...