Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leary says the store was located near MIT, on River Street, and then in the Garage building on JFK Street. O'Leary says the store left its last location to seek refuge from high rents...
...salve wounds and move on following an impeachment trial. "The appetite for bipartisan activity in the Senate is focused on saving and reforming Social Security," says Dickerson. "Both parties there are for it." Maybe the realization of the Great American Dream -- Get On With It -- could be near...
...needed to treat disorders such as Parkinson's disease and diabetes. These diseases are associated with cell types that do not repair or replace themselves, but suitable cells will one day be grown in culture. These uses cannot be justified now; nor are they likely to be in the near future...
...incorporates an ever increasing fraction of the life sciences, ranging from single-cell organisms, like bacteria and yeast, to the complexities of the human brain. All this wonderful biological frenzy was unimaginable when I first entered the world of genetics. In 1948, biology was an all too descriptive discipline near the bottom of science's totem pole, with physics at its top. By then Einstein's turn-of-the-century ideas about the interconversion of matter and energy had been transformed into the powers of the atom. If not held in check, the weapons they made possible might well destroy...
...date draws near, some custodians of San Francisco's landmarks are having second thoughts about being the theater of action for the four-day exercise, and last week the Presidio, a national park near the Golden Gate Bridge, withdrew permission to use its Baker Beach as a landing site. Something about 400 Marines storming up the shore with 20 five-ton trucks and two dozen 14-ton assault vehicles, and then engaging in pitched battle -- albeit simulated -- on the grounds didn't jibe with the Presidio's more family-oriented mandate as a national park. Undaunted, the best and bravest...