Word: legging
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Malcolm P. Logan, a research fellow in genetics at HMS, and Clifford J. Tabin, professor of genetics, performed experiments in which chickens developed wings with the characteristics of legs, such as leg-specific muscles and claws...
Scientists have long been puzzled over how the forelimb and hindlimb develop, as the same genes for development are active in all four limb buds in the embryo. Logan and Tabin determined that additional wing- and leg-specific genes are involved in limb development...
...want to understand how these genes are actually interacting with the common cues which lead to the characteristic skeletal structure which form in the wing and the leg," Logan said...
...considering the federal statute for a minute, it is evident Daly's ideal classroom for "Introduction to Feminist Ethics" has not a legal leg to stand upon. Title IX was designed to promote gender equality in education; and while in 1972 the intention was to prevent discrimination against women, it by no means should be used to tip the scales in the other direction for no apparent reason. Perhaps if Boston College had a class entitled "Achieving Manhood: A Celebration of the Male Gender" that turned away female students because they were considered a corrupting influence on debate at large...
...Crime to me, dark social history, ebb andflow of dark events, the near psychopathic,semi-psychopathic, the leg-breakers of history area voice for me to express my moral concernsbecause these are men who paid morally for theirdark deeds. I am first and last and always amoralist. They are the means for me to recreatehistory to my own specifications, but I am notthem.There is a definite distinction betweenmost writers and their work. Because the work is,in the end, as it is in my case, a work ofimagination, with the exception of thenon-fiction...