Word: morphing
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...outside, however, IVD sperm are not identical to normal sperm. "We think, for normal structure development, sperm needs the testes environment," says Nayernia. It takes 15 to 16 years in the testes before the primordial germ cells that morph into spermatogonia, or a primitive precursor of the germ cells, are able to mature into sperm cells that can successfully fertilize an egg. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
John McQuaid (5:30 p.m.) How did Michael Kelly bringing Fawn Hall to the '87 WH Correspondents Dinner - a witty gesture - morph into today's icky #nerdprom...
...became married at age twenty-seven and purchased a home and ventured forth in procreation.” At first, it’s almost ironic that Boice’s portrait seems like nothing new: “They had no structure to their faces. Their bones morphed into one another. They spoke the same syllables on top of one another, and they were cast out in the middle where they tore the plastic off their new shirts and tossed them in the washer in the year 1998.” It’s an era of unprecedented...
...animator, Kentridge is a deliberate primitive. He makes his films by the painstaking process of drawing and erasing individual images, always on one sheet of paper, not successive sheets, so that the smudges and wipes survive from frame to frame and the images don't so much move as morph forward with bumps and stutters, the way they do in Claymation. Nothing could be further removed from the diamonds and stainless steel of the boom years. It's a style, poignant in its very crudeness, that by its simplicity confers instant legitimacy on Kentridge and his work...
Israel may be a martial democracy, where generals and war heroes often morph into politicians, but there is an ethos among Israelis that it is worth nearly any sacrifice to bring home the body of a soldier fallen in battle or one taken prisoner. Even families of terrorist victims are pleading for Olmert to strike a deal with Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip and survived a 22-day pummeling by Israel earlier this year. Roni Hirshzon, who lost his son Amir in a suicide-bombing attack, said, "What is the price Hamas demands compared with the life...