Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...done very well, and we're not arecognizable store," says Sydney Moss, owner of LePli health spa. "We're closing out our membershipbecause we are filled with 600 members," Mossadds...
...medical researchers hope soon to have a powerful ally in their campaign against viruses: vaccines made from genetically engineered viruses. At the NIH, Dr. Bernard Moss is using recombinant DNA techniques to convert vaccinia, a large virus that causes cowpox, into a one-shot, multidisease vaccine. He plans to insert only the antigen-coding genes of eight to ten kinds of dangerous viruses into the DNA of live but weakened vaccinia viruses. The re- engineered vaccinia would then sport the antigens of the harmful viruses, but not their ability to cause disease. Once inoculated, it would stimulate the immune system...
...originals have taken the opposite position. Alexander Woollcott, twitted unmercifully by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart as The Man Who Came to Dinner, played the title role onstage. Gerard Fairlie, who inspired Sapper's stolid Bulldog Drummond, went on to write seven further novels about himself after the death of the detective's creator. Still, most of those who find themselves appearing under other names have a tendency to seethe. The reason for their umbrage frequently has less to do with egos than with wallets. The model for the romantic doctor in W. Somerset Maugham's story The Happy...
...House of Lords, a political institution that has rarely been explored in modern fiction. Denham is in fact Lord Denham, a hereditary peer (one of his titles was created in 1660) and the Tory Whip. He writes with shrewd and skewering knowledge of the mores of his moss-bound haunts but loyally sees to it that Laborites come in for a full share of the attack...
Students at Brown University this week made 10 mock graves complete with tombstones, moss, and flowers in preparation for this weekend's meeting of Brown's governing boards. The trustees' main agenda item: should the University divest...