Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard scientists reported in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that they successfully identified a single gene in a human fetus cell...
...Arthur W. Nienhus of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute wrote an editorial in the journal claiming: "This is the first direct examination of the gene. The power of the technique is extraordinary, but the actual execution of it, once mastered, is not terribly difficult...
...proffered dollars convinced us at The Crimson to print a newspaper that is being billed as the Summer School's alternative to this paper. But even as the clatter of the press was subsiding at the end of the inaugural run, the sight of the newly printed journal was enough to inspire just a trace of uneasiness in many of the Crimson editors present...
...powers-that-were tried to get the paper to alter its pro-strike editorial policy. When that attempt failed, certain alumni and faculty helped endow The Harvard Independent, the College's weekly, as a "conservative" alternative. The Independent has long since evolved into a middle-of-the-road journal, while The Crimson itself has drifted closer to the center of the political spectrum; nonetheless, the memory of the administration's heavy-handed attempt lingers, called forth by the clattering of the press last night...
...pieces reprinted here, mostly from Vermont Life, Country Journal and The New Yorker, range from meditations on the metaphysics of farming to shopping guides on the purchase of chainsaws and pickup trucks. Taken together, they sketch the education of a greenhorn who was "once a New Yorker, now a peasant" in the rigors of owning and running his own farm. Perrin recalls the winter morning he awoke to find the temperature outside-26°F., his house at 37° and falling, his oil tank empty. He recounts his early, inept attempts to fence off land from deer, other predators...