Word: karle
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...work was carried out in Switzerland by Karl Illmensee of the University of Geneva and Peter Hoppe of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., both veteran researchers in cell biology. Their breakthrough was not in conception -since the procedures for cloning are familiar. It lay rather in the surgeon-like skill and persistence with which they used microscopic instruments to transplant nuclei from cell to cell...
...space shuttle is the U.S.'s launching pad into a new era of space research and manufacturing," says President Karl Harr Jr. of the Aerospace Industries Association. As such, it could help the nation reclaim the leadership in manned spaceflight that it has never relinquished in unmanned explorations, such as those of Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. Says NASA Engineer Robert Gray, mindful of the Soviet advances in recent years: "The shuttle is revolutionary. We'll catch up fast...
After 35 years he had become an almost forgotten person, living quietly in a small house in a suburb of Hamburg. Yet when he died at 89 of progressive heart disease, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, who commanded Hitler's navy during World War II, once more stirred up a controversy. Sensitive to both Nazi memories and controversial aspects of Dönitz's career, the West German government forbade formal or military trappings at the admiral's funeral this week...
...DIED. Karl Dönitz, 89, grand admiral who commanded Nazi Germany's dreaded U-boat "wolf packs"; of heart disease; in Aumühle, West Germany (see WORLD...
...Karl Marx could hardly have imagined that a socialist empire based on the "dictatorship of the proletariat" would one day be shaken to its core by a son of the working class. Yet in 1980 an unemployed Polish electrician, Lech Walesa, rose from the masses to become one of the Communist world's most charismatic figures. When he scaled the gates of Lenin Shipyard in the Baltic port of Gdansk last August, Walesa did far more than seize the reins of an angry strike movement. To millions of Polish workers, he became the symbol of their dreams...