Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...married man, she made every letter count. Today, the art of letter writing has been reduced to the dregs of sub-standard English found in e-mail. Even grade A Harvard scribes tend to regress on the Internet, thanks to the College's most tried and true teaching method: Pavlovian conditioning...
...scientists in the '70s had begun working on a method called recombinant DNA technology, in which they replicated specific genes by placing them in host cells grown in the laboratory. In 1983 scientists at the biotechnology company Amgen isolated the specific bit of DNA that carried the code for producing erythropoietin. They placed the gene in a minuscule bacterial structure called a plasmid, inserted the plasmid into the ovary of a hamster and began to produce synthetic erythropoietin. In 1989 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of recombinant human erythropoietin under the name Epoetin alfa. The process...
...lower bone mass, a dangerous condition for older people. Moreover, because lab animals do not have the life-span of humans, all this remains highly speculative. Dr. Anna McCormick, chief of the biology section at the National Institute on Aging, cautions that cutting calories may never be an effective method of retarding age in humans. But, she says, "there may be a way to find a hormone or a drug that would have the same effect...
More Americans die from this disease each year than from any other condition, prompting physicians to explore a host of ways to keep hearts healthy. For patients whose only recourse is a heart transplant, one bold method, pioneered by a Brazilian surgeon, involves increasing the efficiency of the heart by cutting away a portion of the muscle of the left ventricle, the chamber from which blood is pumped to the rest of the body. Surgeons at several facilities in the U.S. have begun using the technique in trials and hope to improve on its current 40% death rate...
...time, Fran was on her way to claiming at least 21 lives and doing probably more than $1 billion worth of damage. What makes this portrait remarkable is not just the violence it captures but also the method of capturing it. The image was snapped by the GOES-8 weather satellite, which actually took two pictures, one black-and-white and one in the invisible infrared spectrum. These two renderings were beamed to the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...