Word: massed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Bolden, she and her four-month-old daughter were placed in a shelter in Springfield, Mass. and told they had to find their own way to get there if they wanted to claim the space...
...some welfare activists, like Marie Kennedy, associate professor of community planning at U. Mass-Boston's College of Public and Community Service, have been trying to fight this stereotype...
However, a new follow-up program is one payoff from the time limits. Workers from the Mass. Dept. of Public Health will be conducting home visits and serving as a go-between for former recipients and sources of help...
...problem for Bereano and other detractors is that DNA technology works. In England as many as 500 matches are made a week between database entries and samples taken from crime scenes. When mass sweeps are conducted, the police claim a 70% success rate in cracking the crime they're investigating. In the U.S., where the months-old national database has barely got on its feet, the FBI claims that 200 outstanding cases have already been solved. What's more, on occasion, DNA sampling benefits not only the people investigating crimes but also the people convicted of them. Since...
...look downright alarming. Author Jeremy Rifkin, America's most persistent critic of bioengineering, wonders what is in store for a world in which evolution is treated as a plaything and life as an "invention." A case in point: the announcement in November by Advanced Cell Technology of Worcester, Mass., that it had hybridized human DNA with a cow egg. Says David Magnus, director of graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Bioethics Center: "It's an example of an issue that requires deep, careful thought. Instead, there was a race to get it done as fast as possible, because...