Word: milks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brenda Frazier was not the richest or the most beautiful girl in '30s America, she came close enough. She was the glittering symbol of privilege and glamour; her picture made the cover of LIFE; women imitated her Kabuki-like look, with a complexion evoking Colette's description of "milk in shadow." Brenda was seen with notables from Errol Flynn to Cardinal Spellman to Irving Berlin. But obscurity overtook her, and in later years she viewed her life as a cosmic joke: she had become one of the most famous people in the nation simply because of a debutante party...
...that suddenly brings superconductivity into the range of the practical; liquid helium can be replaced as a coolant by liquid nitrogen, which makes the transition from a gas at the easily produced temperature of 77 K (-320 degrees F). Moreover, liquid nitrogen is cheaper by the quart than milk and so long- lasting that scientists carry it around in ordinary thermos bottles. Also, the & ceramics may be able to generate even more intense magnetic fields than metallic superconductors. Thus, if these new substances can be turned into practical devices -- and most scientists believe they can -- technology will be transformed. Declares...
...venture out into the Afrikaners' rural platteland in the Transvaal or the Orange Free State, and apartheid looks alive and well. The Afrikaner driving his bakkie (pickup) rides alone in the front seat, while his black laborers squat in the back. Outside, some blacks sit eating bread and drinking milk they have bought from the nearby corner store, which has a counter for natives only. There is no obvious hostility here, just a sense that this is how things are, and always will be. As the Lord made them...
While some critics of biotechnology cite it as an attempt by man to play God, most scientists view it as merely the latest example of man playing man, exploiting nature as he always has. "A dairy cow was not put on this earth to produce milk for humans," Wagner says. "It was put here to make more cows. We just adapted them to our needs." Harvard Microbiologist Bernard Davis agrees. "Genetic engineering in animals is simply an extension of domestication," he says. "Of all the technologies that man has developed, domestication probably has the best record of enormous benefits...
Indeed, the goals of most genetic engineers are far more modest: leaner pigs, dairy cows that produce more milk, chickens that are resistant to infection and thus can be raised with fewer antibiotics. Though the Patent Office says it has about 15 applications for patents on genetically altered animals, important changes like these are probably ten years away from the farmyard. Says Wagner: "We need to breed, test and evaluate them in an agricultural setting...