Word: obtainable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cloning individual human cells, however, is another matter. Biologists are already talking about harnessing for medical purposes the technique that produced the sheep called Dolly. They might, for example, obtain healthy cells from a patient with leukemia or a burn victim and then transfer the nucleus of each cell into an unfertilized egg from which the nucleus has been removed. Coddled in culture dishes, these embryonic clones--each genetically identical to the patient from which the nuclei came--would begin to divide...
...mail sent out to the nearly 100 undergraduate physics and chemistry/physics concentrators last week, Law said that students will need to obtain written permission from her before they can skip any classes or "double...
...weapons inspector that Iraq has enough biological or chemical arms to "blow away Tel Aviv" has elicited Pentagon-like tough talk from Israeli officials. "Surely Iraq must know that it will not pay to attack Israel," government spokesman David Bar-Ilan told Reuters. Israelis are being told to obtain gas masks nonetheless...
...behavior to explain coming up empty-handed. Executives at the unit of giant General Electric called the contract bids "reckless," saying it wasn't worth more than $340 million a year to keep the AFC rights, the weakest in the package, or more than $500 million a year to obtain Monday Night, considered the strongest. "There was no chance of making money in this deal," said Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports, after the announcements. "I'll guess [it's] a loss of $150 million to $175 million a year. We simply don't believe in being associated with that...
...honorable discharge for homosexuality, McVeigh (no relation to the Oklahoma City bomber) has taken his case to federal court. His argument: the Navy broke both its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy by scouting out his online profile and the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act by failing to obtain a court order before asking AOL for his name. "I'm shocked that the Navy can violate Department of Defense and Navy regulations, as well as federal law," says McVeigh, whose dismissal is on hold while his case is under review...