Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have lost government contracts which I am certain is due to affirmative action programs. Meanwhile, I've seen quite privileged women or better off blacks get those contracts. I am a much more common story than you would like to acknowledge. I believe affirmative action is a new method of class exploitation. It is evil...
Neither Fixsen nor Gelbart hails the new procedure as a major scientific achievement. Another method of sex selection--through in vitro fertilization--is available for parents who want to choose the sex of their child...
...Virginia scientists, though, adapted a technique that has been used for more than a decade to select the sex of cows, horses and pigs. Working with U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist Lawrence Johnson, who invented the method, they stained sperm with a fluorescent dye that latches onto DNA. Measuring the glow of the sperm cells under laser light, they could gauge how much genetic material each one carried. As it happens, X chromosomes have about 2.8% more DNA than Ys. Once the sperm had been distinguished this way, an automated sorting machine separated the Xs from the Ys, and doctors...
...take so long to try the method in humans? The delay was not because of ethical concerns, though some have been raised (see Viewpoint), but because the DNA difference in animal sperm is larger, and thus much easier to measure...
...MiniDisc format makes compromises in audio quality, using a data-compression method that renders it less accurate than CDs. At $300 to $500, MiniDisc recorders are less costly than full-size CD recorders but far pricier than the portable players they aim to displace...