Word: kinships
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...ANDi's close kinship to humans that makes this experiment at once so promising and so troubling. On one hand, the ability to manipulate the genes of a creature so similar to humans could give researchers an incredibly powerful tool for studying and perhaps someday curing human illnesses--introducing Alzheimer's genes, for example, to test new drugs and vaccines against the disease. For that reason, says Richard Weleber, a professor of ophthalmology at Oregon Health Sciences University who believes the research could help cure the form of blindness known as macular degeneration, "this is a revolutionary achievement...
...Goons, a British comedy ensemble featuring Sellers and Spike Milligan, whose anarchic radio and TV shows were a '50s foreshadow of Monty Python. Just as they took to their record producer, George Martin, because he had produced comedy records with Sellers and the Goons, so they felt a kinship with Shenson. At this point, Shenson could have easily opted for a standard pop film formula. A sitcom writer could devise a fluffy story involving the boys, leaving space for a few jaunty numbers. And a competent TV director could shape it up into a palatable confection. The studio and fans...
...filters of the future are in our heads, not on the mouths of pipes," he said. "We should be able to celebrate the abundance of our great resources, not squander and ration them. We must get back to a feeling of kinship with nature...
...early modern Africans, so that the answer to the question of how could Africans enslave other African, is that they did not know they were African. Thus, on the coast both Europeans and Africans traded outsiders. In addition slavery in Africa was an important method of recruitment for the kinship group ? and the kin group was perhaps more important than the individual as the basic unit of society. Slaves conferred prestige both to the group and the individual owner. Slaves were expected to labor, but their main function was not, or not only, economic. More important, as a member...
...paired with black actors and backed by an assaultive hip-hop score. As Han, scion of a Chinese family at war with a black clan in San Francisco, Li must juggle ethnic rivalries and ethical responsibilities--in other words, kick everybody's ass, without regard to race or kinship. Han's only ally is the black kingmaker's daughter Trish O'Day (R.-and-B. thrush Aaliyah), in a romance so tepid it is consummated with a hug. But our hero is at his combative best on his own. You have to see this Han solo...