Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Observing these bacterial tricks, molecular biologists began isolating various restriction enzymes. They had already discovered another type of bacterial enzyme, called a ligase (from the Latin word meaning to bind), which acted as a form of genetic glue that could reattach severed snatches of DNA. Using their new biochemical tools, the scientists embarked upon some remarkable experiments. As usual, they turned to their favorite guinea pig, a lab strain of E. coli, and soon they had learned to insert with exquisite precision new genetic material from other, widely differing organisms into the bacteria (see diagram...
...Hispanic readers, Nuestro's ingenuous latino es bueno tone of voice may seem like ethnic overkill: the cover portrait of two strikingly handsome Latin faces is twice repeated inside the magazine, for example. Still, the magazine's diversity of sources and subjects should encourage a proud sense of unity in the nation's often peckishly insular Hispanic factions. "It will help Latinos realize how much they have in common," says Co-Managing Editor Jose Ferrer, "their roots, achievements and problems." Adds Publisher Lopez: "Nuestro will reflect a viable culture in which God is not a joke...
...while Buffett's music is countrified Caribbean. He lives aboard a 33-ft. ketch called Euphoria, and island-hops through the Antilles. His music, like his lifestyle, is a gentle blend of folksy Southern rock and infatuation with the Caribbean. Buffett writes, often puckishly, of Gulf Stream idyls, Latin crimes of passion, and tequila-filled days. His themes, presented in simple rhythms and sung in an engaging baritone, have the languorous appeal of a fishnet hammock. As he sings in Wastin' Away Again in Margaritaville...
Whenever he traveled, Henry Kissinger took the State Department with him. When he went to Latin America last year, he took along an expert on the Middle East just in case something happened in that area. Although the Middle East was expected to be one of the major topics of Vance's talks in Moscow, the new Secretary did not have a specialist along...
...diplomat, he too is a surprise, since he has had little experience in the Middle East. ("Maybe that's his biggest advantage," quips a senior State Department official.) Lewis, a Texan who joined the Foreign Service in 1954, served in Brazil during the '60s and later became Latin American specialist for the National Security Council. Most recently, he has been deputy director of State's Office of Policy Planning and assistant secretary for International Organization Affairs...