Word: lasering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Horowitz, who declined to comment and referred all questions to Leigh when reached by telephone last week, is beginning an "optical SETI program" to "look for very short pulses of laser light...
...technique perfected by the not-for-profit Genetics & IVF Institute involves staining sperm cells with a DNA-sensitive fluorescent dye and then passing them single file through a laser beam. The cells are sorted based on the amount of light reflected by the fluorescent DNA. It's painstaking work -- sorting a single batch takes the better part of a day -- but the results speak for themselves: Of 14 pregnancies produced so far for couples who wanted a girl, 13 fetuses were female. Not entirely foolproof, but pretty close...
...contemplate the situation I took myself out to the (kosher) McDonald's. Over my Big Mac, across the shopping center from the Laser Center (spelled in awkward Hebrew) and above the Castro clothing store (named after either the district of San Francisco or the Cuban dictator or both, given the number of red dresses), I wondered why Israel is populated with so many things American. One potential answer is the most superficial: people speak English here as their second language, as a way to travel the world and to serve their own tourists. The seeping of American foods and names...
...looks like a laser pointer," Rachel said, as the spot drifted over...
...laser pointer incident was only the first disturbing event of the evening. Soon a man in the E.R. waiting room, whose friend was being treated for a bloody head wound, began asking Nisha for her address and offering to be her boyfriend. Scared, Nisha and I joined Anjali by the receptionist...