Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebate for almost every American, and increased Government spending to reduce unemployment. The plan, which was estimated to cost $23 billion to $30 billion when it was first announced earlier this month, had been continuously revised and enlarged almost up to the minute of its presentation. The most novel change: depending on whether they wanted to increase staff or boost spending, businessmen would be allowed to choose between a new payroll tax credit or a slightly expanded investment tax credit...
Poor Kris Kristofferson. The former Pomona College football star, now 40, pulled a hamstring muscle while playing Shake Tiller, a good ole boy and pass-catchin' end in the movie being made from Dan Jenkins' novel Semi-Tough. Burt Reynolds, a onetime running back for Florida State, is cast as Shake's pal, the hard-drinking, womanizing hero, Billy Clyde Puckett. During the filming in Dallas Reynolds was constantly surrounded by groupies. What to do? Taking a tip from Puckett, he claims he "got 'em upstairs as quick as possible...
Evidence of Love finds her on un familiar ground. The novel's settings include Philadelphia in the 1880s, Europe before and after World War I, British East Africa, contemporary small-town Pennsylvania, Chicago and a modern retirement community on Florida's Gulf Coast. But the three main characters seem to have less interest in place than in themselves...
...trying to estimate the immediate hazards from novel organisms it is useful to distinguish three possibilities: that experiments with a given kind of DNA will produce a dangerous organism; that the organism will infect a laboratory worker; and that the organism will spread...
...animal cells. Two considerations seem pertinent. First, the probability that any fragment will contain a gene for a toxic product, or the genes of a tumor virus, is exceedingly low, though not zero. Second, evolutionary considerations provide an independent approach to the question. It seems exceedingly doubtful that our novel ability to introduce mammalian DNA into bacteria in the laboratory will create a truly novel class of organisms, for evolution has already had a crack at the problem...